Up until now, the only way to enjoy faster Internet speeds was to upgrade ISP’s. If you’re still on Dial-up (yes, there are some of us still stuck in the 90’s), you can go up to Broadband, for instance. But the Google Chromium Group is developing a new application-layer protocol that could make the web faster for users — without necessitating an ISP upgrade.
The Google Chromium Group is currently developing SPDY, a new way of communication between servers and browsers. Currently we use HTTP, and it does a great job bringing the Internet to our fingertips. But lab tests of SPDY on 25 of the Internet’s top websites have yielded a consistent 55% speed boost. No coincidence that SPDY is pronounced “speedy!”
SPDY is still in its development stages, but the Google Chromium Group is already opening the project to the web community for support, feedback, and participation. If you’d like to pitch in on perhaps the biggest thing to happen to the Internet in the last decade, visit the Chromium team’s blog at blog.chromium.org.
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