So I’ve finally made the move away from stable employment into the realms of running a company. That was the big plan I had talked about earlier. I am now avaliable for freelance work while I attempt to build up a pretty big web company.
As part of the plan I’ve moved to Hong Kong, and I’ve finally semi-settled here with a place to stay but no furnitures yet. I’ll be starting to complete my company establishment in the coming month. After which I would be full steam ahead with development of various fantastic projects.
If there are any web developer/entrepreneurs out there who is also looking to start up. Please, consider me. I’m always looking for opportunities to work with other people.
//Logging off from Hong Kong
With the release of Google Chrome beta for Windows and the planned beta soon after for Mac and Linux. It is obvious that a major player in the internet field has finally extended it’s claws into the browser.
Google Chrome, based on webkit, has essentially made it’s rendering speed and features the same as Safari. A lot of people are hailing about it, even newspapers for the ordinary folks.
According to techCrunch, some people thinks it can catch up to firefox’s 20% market share in 2 year time.
I’m not so sure about that. Don’t get me wrong, Google is certainly strong however, with no development tool comparable to Firebug and I certainly can’t see any easy module installation functionality at this moment.
Google Chrome will not be as successful as Firefox, Google Chrome will only be categorised the same as Opera and Safari.
The 20% marketshare that Firefox enjoys today at the end of the day is due to the developer community spreading it like fire whenever they have the chance to do so on their relative’s machines and at their workplace.
The ability to have completely customisable addons is what made Firefox. Unless other browsers do the same, they’ll always be “consumer” oriented browsers that will require enormous amount of public advertising to get any market shares.
So. I don’t doubt Google Chrome as a browser that we developers will need to add it onto our list of “supported browsers” in a year or two. But gaining the marketshare of Firefox? Maybe in 5 years time.
I’ve always debated on the issue about personal and professional blogging. It is hard for me to not simply be myself and blog in one place. However I can understand the benefit of a professional blog vs a personal blog.
Well, so I’ve decided, I’m going to make this blog more personal, and my professional blog would be established on Citisky.
Afterall, Citisky Studio has always been my professional playground.
Doesnt change anything for now though. I’ve got some big plans coming up so I’m concentrating on those efforts.
It would be cool actually to make a wordpress module (if it doesn’t already exist) so that I can manage two blogs on one interface and I can assign it to the personal or professional category and it’ll get updated accordingly.
I might look into that when I have a bit more times in my hand. Later
