Google Browser sync

• Google will store the Firefox browser settings that you select in association with your Google account and use them to synchronize settings for Firefox browsers on other computers. You can choose to encrypt Google’s stored copies of your settings. When you update or delete your browser settings, the copy stored with your Google Account will be updated or deleted as well.

• Any user of your browser can see its history and other settings. Google Browser Sync synchronizes these settings among every browser on which you install Browser Sync. This means that anyone who uses one of those browsers can see browser settings created on the others. In addition, by using the browser anyone can create new settings, such as browsing history, that will be synchronized.
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i didn’t know that browser syncing was yet another google service. it sounds like there are a few items that get encrypted, but i’d still love to see google use some sort of public/private key infrastructure so all of your data at google could be encrpted. i’d gladly pay a yearly subscription if google offered that.

heh. when else can you use a title like that? i just setup a lijit search bar at the bottom, gonna be playing with it for awhile. there’s something scary ( orwellian ) about being able to search all your social media sites at once. it can also be a very powerful tool to have search results from multiple trusted/tagged sources.

i’ve seen a few stories this week about google trying to aquire the 700mhz wireless spectrum. [ GigaOM ] [ techcrunch ] if you’re not familiar with it, the 700mhz spectrum currently is analog tv and since the us is switching to digital tv the 700mhz specturm is up for grabs. google has made the required minimum bid of $4.6 BILLION to try to aquire it. i wonder what happened with google buying as much dark fiber as they could. dark fiber is the left over/ upgrade fiber that already exists but isn’t currently utilized.

as much as i like my tmobile wing and i tollerate windows mobile 6 that runs on it. and as much as i’d love to run a trolltech qtopia green phone (it’s linux!), nothing really gets my attention like a google based mobile device, aka the google phone [ engadget ]. yeah yeah yeah the interface on the iphone is neat. it roates to landscape when you turn the phone. i would expect nothing less from apple honestly, but how is the rf on the iphone?

with as far as the 700 mhz spectrum penetrates (thing about the rabbit ears on your tv. that signal goes anywhere) along with normal gsm spectrums (800, 950, 1800, 1900) a google phone that would use not only the 700mhz but also carrier specific spectrums would be one powerful device. if google aquires the specturm they’re talking about openning up a new channel of communication of billions, not just those on regular cellular, wireless, or data networks. [ official google blog ] of course if google aquired that spectrum, it doesn’t mean it would be limited to cellphones. it could also be a wi-max type network. open network, with open services, with open applications, and open devices. ( that’s a lot of ‘open’, their words not mine )

being able to connect to a common network from any device and having the same applications across multiple devices means always being connected and having the same user experience across the board. it also means that google will be able to serve up ever more relevant google ad words ads no matter where we are. hopefully someone invents an adblock extension for the google phone. *grin*

oh, and i’m gonna miss having to use rabbit ears to get television signals, now you’ll need a special htdv antenna in order to pick up any over the air/free channels. then again with tivo or a mythtv box you convert digital signal to analog to play on a tv. i really want to see what google has accomplished in 10 more years. i really do expect some sort of google net which can be access from any device with an unlimited resource of data. drool.