2008 is soon to pass. What does the coming year hold for all Search Engine Optimization practitioners? What algorithm updates will the search engines implement? Will Google continue to dominate the Search Market? Will there be a massive effect from the Google SearchWiki? Personalized Search in 2009? Will Yahoo increase its search market share? Microsoft and Yahoo merger?

We will soon find out…

I’m now using Google Chrome… a few days after they went out of Beta. And so far the user experience is so good. I think they live up to their promise of faster browsing. I’m not sure yet if the bugs of some time ago are gone now. We’ll see…

Now this is fast. Just a few days after the release of RC1, comes WordPress 2.7 RC2. According to the developers, this would almost be the final release of 2.7 barring any bugs and glitches. Or maybe a little tweaking or polishing as they say

This blog is now running on WordPress 2.7 RC1 and so far so good. I like the new admin interface (dashboard). Hopefully there won’t be any major glitches (none that I have heard/read so far).

I’ll be posting more on the new WP version in days to come…

Google rolled out another program. Google Friend Connect, another social network to check out. To quote their blog, it says: “Even better, you don’t have to deal with the hassle of creating yet another username and password — Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID. Similarly, you can choose to either establish a new profile or use profiles and friend sources from other social networks that have opened up their services, like Plaxo and Orkut.”

I already created my profile using my Google account.