In All Fairness … Internet Explorer Still Stinks

This is the story of how SitePoint tried to give Internet Explorer a fighting chance … and it lost anyway. more ...

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Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Costs Them $110 Million/Year

Because the button takes users directly to the top search result, Google doesn't get to show search ads on one percent of all its searches. That costs the company around $110 million in annual revenue, according to Rapt's Tom Chavez. So why does Google keep such a costly button around? more ...

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Interesting Stats of Facebook

A blogger named Paul Francis went to the trouble of gathering Facebook user data via an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting. He pulled user numbers for the top countries, broken down by male/female.

The data set is here. The tool shows a total of 42,966,780 members in the top 31 countries. The U.S. leads with just over 18 million users, followed by the UK (6.8m), Canada (6.7m), Australia (1.9m) and Turkey (1.6m).

Forty percent of U.S. users are male, compared to 36% overall. Men looking for love may want to try Ireland or China, where 73% and 72% of users are female, respectively. Other than the U.S., which has the highest percentage of males, the lowest percentage of female users is in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UAE and Egypt.

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Interesting Web Browsers You Have Never Heard Of

A quick review of some new (and old) browsers as alternatives. It is worth reading, may be you get know the browser which helps you to surf the internet in a way that you ever wished for ...

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Gmail Update Draws Gripes

Gmail 2.0 is supposed to be faster, but some users complain it's the opposite--and crashes their browsers.

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AT&T Considers Joining Google's Wireless Group

'AT&T has talked with Google about joining its mobile-phone software alliance. The phone company is "analyzing the situation" and may use Google's software for phones, Ralph de la Vega, chief executive officer of the wireless unit, said in an interview Friday."

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Visual Studio 2008 coming next week

The MSDN Subscriptions Weblog is telling us that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to subscribers early next week. Darryl Taft of eWeek has some additional information about the VS 2008 release with a supposed date of November 19th. Visual Studio 2008 has a number of features that will be beneficial for RIA developers on the Microsoft platform. First and foremost, Visual Studio 2008 has full support for creating WPF applications for Vista and XP. Visual Studio 2008 adds support for editing XAML and enhances the designer/developer workflow between VS and Blend. Perhaps more importantly is the support for Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008. The Silverlight tools are available as an add-on for Visual Studio 2008. It won't be built...

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Microsoft buying Yahoo?

Much is being made of Microsoft President of Platforms & Services Kevin Johnson's statement this week that Microsoft is planning to become No. 2 online advertising player within three to five years. Johnson and the Microsoft online-advertising crew have made this same boast a few times this year. What Johnson did share on November 15 during his remarks at a UBS investor conference was more specifics about how Microsoft plans to get there. Johnson, a sales guy through and through, used the catchy "10, 20, 30, 40" slogan to describe Microsoft's goals. As Johnson outlined it, the plan is this: 10: Get the Microsoft Web sites to comprise 10 percent of all Internet page views (up from what Johnson says ... more

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Google launches universal email migration API

A few weeks ago Google announced IMAP support, allowing adminstrators to move external email system to Google Apps, and today extended the invitation to any email system with the Google Apps Email Migration API, which is based on Gdata. Third parties are using the API to build migration tools, such as LimitNone's gMOVE for moving Outlook email, contacts and calendars to Google Apps, according to a post on Google's Enterprise blog. Google is getting serious about going beyond search appliances for enterprises, with ... more

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PayPerPost Bloggers Get Slammed By Google

If participating in PayPerPost wasn’t questionable enough morally before, today it’s now a poisoned chalice as Google has commenced punishing PayPerPost bloggers by completely removing their page rank.

IZEA (the new holding company for PayPerPost) CEO Ted Murphy is not surprisingly calling foul on the move, claiming that it’s part of some sort of censorship conspiracy by Google. Better still Murphy claims that it’s part of Google’s attempts to deny competition because PayPerPost is a “a very attractive alternative” to Adsense.

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