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I’ve been reviewing this blog’s site stats in Google Webmaster Tools, and found this in the query stats:

Interesting. I’m the top hit in [metawire account] (for the now-defunct Metawire.org site that offers free OpenBSD shell accounts). I also placed second in [chikkatalk], next to Chikka’s official FAQ page.

My PR stats are dismal. (I don’t really care about PR, though.) It was also interesting to find out what anchor texts were used to link back to Coredump.

A Google executive in Spain has confirmed that the search giant’s R&D is working on a mobile phone.

Read the translated news item (I don’t know Spanish — except for a few lewd terms — but Google has to work on its translation efforts. “Movable phone” — that’s original. ;))

Online identity verification system OpenID gains steam as prominent web companies adopt its use.

Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg’s Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.

“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.

Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.

Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account — they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves

Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.

Today, the web; tomorrow, the world!

Via Information Aesthetics.

Firefox’s next major iteration will feature support for offline applications.

This was revealed by Mozilla developer Robert O’Callahan.

Callahan mentioned that the offline app support builds on a few “quasi-standard” APIs — “WHATWG client-side storage, jar: URLs, and WHATWG online/offline sensing” — and will incorporate a new API for “storing application pages in the ‘offline cache’”.

“That’s just a new ‘rel’ keyword for the element. So it should be pretty easy to add this to any browser,” Callahan said.

Google is among those perceived most likely to benefit from this development.

“Although Mozilla is an open source organization, some of its top workers are employed by Google. So it’s a very cozy relationship,” Read/WriteWeb said.

“The Mountain View company has a number of best-of-breed web apps — and if it’s not building them, it’s acquiring them (YouTube, JotSpot, Writely, etc),” so Firefox development plans suits Google’s plans as well, the blog said.

This provides “another piece of the Web OS/office puzzle”, Google watcher Philip Lenssen said.

Google provides free applications like Gmail, Docs and Spreadsheets, and Calendar that transform the web browser as an online office productivity suite.