Google gets it
Of course you’ve seen Google’s new browser preferences sync tool. You have, haven’t you? If you’ve somehow missed it, Browser Sync is a Firefox plugin that syncronizes your browser settings between PCs. It includes bookmarks, saved passwords, cookies, browsing and tab history. Once you set it up, you start up Firefox and puts the browser back into the state it was in the last place you used it.
I have to say that it’s slick. And not just in that neato-dancing-bear sort of way, it’s one of those we-really-get-how-you-use computers things. Microsoft figured this out a few decades ago, and they built an empire on it: we like take our work home with us (and we take our home to work too). Google has figured it out as well, except they have a flair for simpler solutions.
Of course a tool like this is riddled with privacy concerns (unlike Windows), but Google already has their thumb on what people are searching for … so it won’t be any surprise what they’re bookmarking. In the end, Google has taken another step toward world domination. Or something like that.