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Speed Things Up With FastestFox

3/10/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under OneRiot Partnerships

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There’s fast, faster, and fastest.  For all you speed demons out there, is there any question which degree of acceleration you’d choose?  Didn’t think so.  That being said, it only makes sense that you would turn your attention to FastestFox, the speediest little add-on you’ll ever meet.

Equipped for both Firefox and Chrome, FastestFox helps you browse faster by speeding up common tasks such as searching Wikipedia and Google, visiting your bookmarks, and more.  You can even snag “related results” which fetches relevant results from other search engines including Surf Canyon and our very own OneRiot.

screen-shot-2010-03-10-at-65348-pmOne of the sweetest features of FastestFox is their highlight feature.  Read something online that you’re interested in?  Just highlight the text and a little bubble will pop up letting you choose between OneRiot, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Google.  Click any of the four options and be automatically directed to query results within your search of choice.

Go ahead and hook yourself up with FastestFox for an enhanced browsing experience–Though be on the lookout for the internet police, they can come down hard on speeding violations.

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Google GPS and Other Huge Netovations

10/29/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Industry

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This morning the social web was abuzz with the phrase “This Will Be Huge.” Those four words are applicable to so many situations that what it may have been referring to was  a mystery to us.  Perhaps, everyone on the Interweb was partaking in a worldwide pizza making contest and had used entirely too much dough prompting them to announce “This will be huge,” or maybe they were celebrating National Viagra Day.  Either way, further investigation was warranted.  What we came upon was neither food nor Erectile Dysfunction related.

It seems that Internet industry monster Google has released a new beta application  called “Google Maps Navigation.”  The free GPS turn-by-turn navigation system has made such an immediate impression, the stock of GPS makers such as Garmin and TomTom more or less have hit the deck, and Mashable’s article on the release was passed around like hotcakes at a Sunday brunch buffet.  While we have no doubt that Google’s new beta map app will change the face of humanity forever, this announcement prompted us take a look at other web innovations that have revolutionized the way we interact with the world around us. While we think that Google Maps Navigation will certainly be huge, it might never eclipse the following five internet advances.
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Google Earth Just Got Awesomer

12/29/08 - Posted by Brian Burns under Hot Topics

British researchers have “discovered” a previously-uncharted part of our globe: a 27-mile stretch of forest around Mt. Mabu in Mozambique. The area, though known to natives, was unknown to the rest of the world (mostly because it lay within a brutal war zone as recently as 1992).

At least, it was unknown before the group of boy geniuses stumbled upon an unmarked patch of green forest on a GoogleMaps. We kid you not. The same application young professionals use to scope out apartments was just used to pinpoint a part of our own planet we didn’t know existed, and in turn helped us find hundreds of new species we didn’t know were there.

The find not only speaks to the majesty of our planet and the wonder of what still remains in our clear view, but it also speaks to the laziness of explorers these days. I mean, really? No one has, like, walked around in Southern Africa since 1992? You needed a computer to find a mountain?

Think about it - what would America be if Columbus had turn-by-turn GPS directions to East Asia? France, that’s what. And that would suck.

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