Sep 4, 2006 News Wire

• Programmed personal homepages over the last 20 years
  With the plenitude of services being launched to fully customize the page displayed by your browser when you first launch it, this insightful look back at the history of such services may contain some valuable lessons.
  (tags: design)
• Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 2 Release Notes
  Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is out. Time to start compatibility-testing your sites and reporting any bugs that may affect you.
  (tags: firefox software)
• Mephisto Immortus Released
  Version 0.6 of the Mephisto Blogging and Content Management System has been released. The new version includes revamped asset management and search features. Mephisto is written for Ruby on Rails (specifically, Edge Rails).
  (tags: rubyonrails software)
• British Airways Flies With Google Earth
  British Airways integrates its online ticket sales with Google Earth (no, not Google Maps—Google Earth!).
  (tags: google)
• Code freeze in preparation of Drupal 5.0.0
  Venerable PHP CMS Drupal is gearing up for a major new release. The final release of Drupal 5.0.0 is at least two months away by current estimates, but development of new features is now frozen. It might be worth taking a fresh look at this powerful tool.
  (tags: php software)
• Event Streaming to Web Browsers
  After lagging behind in its AJAX support, Opera has surged ahead, becoming the first browser to implement Server-Side Events (SSE) from the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification—streaming multiple events over a persistent connection.
  (tags: ajax opera javascript)
• Safari Tabs
  A preview of new tabbed browsing features in Safari 3, to be included in Mac OS X 10.5, “Leopard”.
  (tags: safari)
• Geotagging
  Dave Shea reviews the new interface that Yahoo! has deployed for geotagging photos on Flickr. Although the review is mostly positive, he does flag a design issue with interpeting the chronological order of photos displayed on a map.
  (tags: design)

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