It doesn't work on Internet Explorer 9. IE 9 already supports portions of HTML5 and it has a damn fast rendering engine. This would have been a great add-on for previous versions of IE.
It's not different. Both are random search algorithms packaged in a (somewhat complex) human abstraction. The convergence properties are the same as for other search algorithms using meta heuristics, including the classic simulated annealing algorithm.
Can someone point to resources that outline what the web developer community can do to speed up the general transition to IPv6? Are there any startups that today make their services available via IPv6?
The transition isn't going to happen until the cost of IPv4 addresses is much higher than the cost of switching to IPv6. I would say that the cost definitely has to be higher than $11.25 per host.
IMHO the problem is Google's reliance on the pagerank algorithm. Prohibiting automatic back-linking is fighting the symptom, instead of coming up with a cure.
It is a shame that not even Amazon is challenging PayPal's monopoly in Europe. Neither Amazon DevPay nor Amazon Simple Pay is available in Europe, and Google Checkout is only available in the UK.
Amazon doesn't strike me as being the best of the bunch in terms of i18n, really. Here in Italy, their presence is kind of limited in terms of countries/languages where they are present: only Germany, France and UK. Granted, it's more difficult for a company trucking in physical products to move into new markets, but they seem to be taking their sweet time about it.
Google is a bit better, but still strikes me as very US-centric in some ways.
