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Ebsy wrote:It could be that Safari is the second worst browser known to man.

Psh. Safari is the best browser out there. Especially after the Yosemite release.

Also, I follow Apple blindly and am fully aware of it.

Safari sucks on my ipad since iOS 8

dbInSouthCity wrote:Safari sucks on my ipad since iOS 8

I rarely use my iPad, but I do use Safari on my iPhone. What issues does it have?

The main issue I remember is that you could not search in the url bar, though there were several other features that were not friendly to people used to using other browsers.

Ebsy wrote:The main issue I remember is that you could not search in the url bar, though there were several other features that were not friendly to people used to using other browsers.

Firefox has the same behavior (separate "search" and "url" boxes). While slightly inconvenient, its actually a privacy feature. With the Google-style "Omnibar" every keystroke is sent to the search provider to be stored, mined and analyzed. With the separate boxes you get the best of both worlds: auto completion and suggestions on searches (as you were already going to send that information to the search provider anyways) and some degree of privacy when directly entering a URL.

Its also a boon for us nerds that may have local network hosts that they would like to navigate to. If I type the URL to a resource on my local network that isn't a traditional "dot something" domain name say, "mediaserver." 9/10 times, the unified search box shows me search results for "mediaserver" rather than looking on the network for a resource named "mediaserver." Having differentiated URL and "search" boxes removes that ambiguity.

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This is what Firefox looks like at the moment.

^ Huh, that's surprising to me. I use FF daily on both Linux and Mac and I don't believe that's the default behavior. If you go to "Add-Ons" you don't happen to have AwesomeBar (or a similar extension) installed do you?

Safari uses the joint URL/search bar now anyways.

Great find. I love this idea and I have had my eye on the parking lot behind R-REX for an extension at some point.

^ I'm glad your greater mind thinks like mine! Do you think something like that might be realistic in the next 5-10 years? The infill potential is just crazy north of Washington, particularly in DW.

Cultivation Capital is a BIG deal for STL. Im happy they're doing what they're doing.

The tech startup scene is only 3 years old and I think it is blowing up much faster then cortex when you consider cortex is 12 years old. In looking at the cultivation capital companies and their St. Louis locations all of them except Gainsight are relocated downtown. Aisle411 is located at CET.

100 gb service is very impressive. Since downtown St. Louis has fiber on every corner but not within every building I have not been a huge supporter of using our limited funds for lighting more fiber. None of the companies downtown that I am talking to have said they need more Internet what most say they need is more capital to hire more people.

I would prefer that our state and city continue to support capital formation for our early stage tech, life science, and bio-tech companies. Missouri Technology Corporation has been great in this area. The regional chamber has made or committed to investments within SixThirty FinTech Accelerator and the Prosper Women's Accelerator. I believe the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership is investing in the Yield Lab Ag Tech Accelerator.

This capital although not a significant piece of the total investment helps, as does the press and man-power that they can bring to bear.

BioStl helped lure an Israeli start-up open a US presence in CIC:

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... b08c7.html

Kaiima was one of the companies the group visited during a trip to that nation in May. That the firm so quickly decided to set up an operation in St. Louis says something to Rubin.

“It’s a validation of our thesis and of our approach,” Rubin said. “It makes us very hopeful that there will be more successes....”

BioSTL’s goal is to attract companies already successful at raising venture capital and looking to open a sales office, research facility or regional headquarters in the United States. They aren’t expecting the firms to move their entire operations.

Kaiima fits these goals in that the company already has raised nearly $100 million in venture capital and is opening a small operation here.

Congratulations to Gabe Lozano and the LockerDome team for raising another $10 million and to continue to grow LockerDome on Washington Avenue and for not leaving St. Louis for the easy money from the Bay Area. LockerDome is one of the beachheads for St. Louis in the creation of the growing tech scene in downtown St. Louis.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... ml?ana=twt

That's awesome. Dave Peacock looks to be getting busy these days, definitely a good to sign. Congrats to LockerDome and local investors.

I put together my top 10 list of Tech News stories for 2014. 2014 might not have raised as much capital as 2013 with early numbers showing $222 million in 2014 vs $380 million in 2013, however, a growing bench of tech companies (over 100) that have raised at least $1 million foretells a story of continued job growth mostly in the downtown area. Look for more great news within the tech start-up scene in 2015. http://lockerdome.com/6524333623354689/7275318654419991

Juristat, the St. Louis startup that helps lawyers predict the outcomes of the patent legal process, has raised $1.2 million from a group of investors led by Arsenal Capital Management.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... acock.html

Happy to see this company building momentum. They have worked really hard to get to this point and they contribute a lot to the local tech community.

I believe this was noted on a previous thread but World Wide Technology does seem on a roll. I also wonder, would a company like WWT, be interest in adding own bus/shuttle service like you see so much in the Bay Area. Ideally, a big establish expanding technology business picking up in the burbs and moving to downtown would be great but believe WWT is firmly planted.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... ology.html

World Wide Technology, based in St. Louis, is among the largest hirers projected this year; it is looking to add 700 staff members.