Feanor

I am using Google public DNS right now.
You can find information here:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/index.html
To see what DNS you are currently using try this command: "nslookup [any web address]", the first two lines should be the DSN sever.
I have been using OpenDNS so far but their servers are located mostly in US and if I remember well they have got only two locations in Europe that is England and Holland. I guess Google should be able to provide a DNS closer to my position.

Yes, Google is extending its dominance over the whole Web and I am providing them even more information about my Internet user profile.

Can somebody suggest a free HTML editor that is still under development?

This is one of the reasons why I am pessimistic about the future of the Web.
Less and less software is available.

This morning around 8.20 I made some tests with Speedtest on my Internet connection, that comes from the main Italian provider, Telecom Italia, and should be an ADSL line for 7Mbps in download and 0.38Mbs in upload. Here are the results (single pass for each location).

Milano	Vicenza	Roma	Paris
ping 67 downlod 6.48 upload 0.23	ping 68 download 10.40 upload 0.33	ping 77 download 16.13 upload 0.39	ping 157 download 15.10 upload 0.27
London	New York	San Francisco	Tokio
ping 161 download 8.90 upload 0.39	ping 168 download 17.22 upload 0.22	ping 240 download 6.80 upload 0.34	ping 366 download 4.11 upload 0.19

You can see the line is too asymmetric (20:1 - DL:UL ratio) and basically I don't use all that download bandwidth while I am very limited by low upload. This is the lower service available, otherwise I would subscribe one even lower. Another bad thing about it is when everybody is up and connected the network tends to collapse and you either lose the connection or the performance degrade badly. On a side note: the italian government is discussing about financing the "broadband Internet" in rural areas currently not covered by the ISPs with at least 800 million euros. IMHO that is just a gift to the ISPs that currently do what ever they want with their customers.

This is what I would fear if I was going to put any service on the "cloud":
"Starting September 8th, 2009, the following services will be unavailable"
http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2009/08/21/500.aspx

Meanwhile, while I was still reading ZDnet, met this other article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=5467
Now, in my experience IT projects fail because both the customer and who sales the project to the customer basically do not understand what they are speaking about. Usually none involved in making decisions is motivated about delivering a successful project overall but just about their personal goals that make sense only in the internal "politics" of the two companies (customer and provider). In some situations the project is doomed since the beginning on purpose, I mean everybody knows it will fail but they don't mind because it is functional to their personal goals as above (see "making business").
This produces the general idea that IT is some sort of fraud where you are forced to over pay idiot technicians to deliver some service that never works as expected.
The best example I know is the national tourism portal of Italy, www.italy.it. Million euros have been spent during years, it opened and closed and opened again. It's a comedy, like most projects I saw actually.

I was reading this:
Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million
The open source OGG Theora codec is based on On2 VP3 codec. Now lets see what Google will do with all those video technology patents and software. In theory they could simply replace all the Flash video on Web sites like Youtube with HTML5 + VPx, of course IF Google releases some high performance codec as Open Source and IF all the browser "vendors" agree on the same "native" codec for HTML5.

You could have said clearly then that HTML5 was Google's tool to replace Flash and such for the "RIA" stuff.

Edit: another interesting thing is On2 was providing video technologies to several Google's "competitors", like Adobe and Microsoft or Skype.

On2 Video is the format of choice of media industry leading solutions including Adobe® Flash® Player, Skype™ video conferencing, Sun JavaFX, and Move Networks' ground-breaking high-quality Internet television service.