Last year in my post “Microsoft the new #1 web server?” I described the changes in web server market shares according to Netcraft. However, these statistics might give a somewhat wrong overall picture as Netcraft apparently counts every virtual host as one server.

If you look at the most recent web server survey from Security Space you will notice that the changes are far from dramatic (at least from Apache’s point of view). Furthermore it also looks like Netcraft are adjusting/reversing the trend displayed last year.

Historical market share - Across all domains

Netcraft

Security Space

gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for Firefox, a perfect companion for all of you using Google® Docs.

With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents.

You can search and filter documents right from the sidebar.

Your Gmail credentials are sent to Google directly over SSL and your passwords are safely stored in Firefox Password Manager.

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Google Docs - A brief introduction

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc.

Share and collaborate in real time

Just enter the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share a given document and send them an invitation.
Multiple people can view and make changes at the same time. There’s an on-screen chat window for spreadsheets, and document revisions show you exactly who changed what, and when.

Safely store and organize your work

There’s nothing to download; you access your documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard browser. Easily find your documents by organizing them into folders. Drag and drop your documents into as many folders as you want. You can also save copies to your own PC.

Control who can see your documents

You can make your documents available as a web page, blog post or only to the peoples you have invited. Fast convenient and free.

GooglePreview inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. When you use GooglePreview and click on an Amazon link within the search results, you support the author and the further development of the extension and back end if you actually purchase a product.

The GooglePreview thumbnail system currently consists of 5 dedicated servers and generates 4.5 TB of traffic per month.

How to get it

GooglePreview for Firefox | GooglePreview for Internet Explorer

WallStreetFighter wrote a funny post Thursday named 8 UnEthical Ways To Improve Traffic To Your Blog. This is a must read (on a Sunday).

Some of the pointers would most likely provide massive traffic, but also a massive lawsuit. But if you are connected from one of those countries where Internet laws are still blurry - give it a go…

After more than a decade serving us web surfers Netscape has announced that their browser will be unsupported as of February this year (2008). The good thing is that they recommend everyone to switch to Firefox, but then again it really has been a FF-clone for several years now already.

Those of you that can’t live without the Netscape “look” can download Netscape theme and Netscape extensions to keep the familiar appearance…

In the comments (to the blog announcement) I see people complaining about Netscape giving up, and saying it’s sad to see someone give in to IE. In my opinion IE is just one of those things that comes bundled with Windows, and not really something people are downloading. The real competition is, and has been for several years, Opera, Firefox and Safari. And they’ve done wonders in respect to development and finding new markets, which Netscape on the other hand has failed to do (blame it on AOL).

Feel free to share your thoughts on this, or post your condolences…