News Wire: Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra, WordPress 2.3, and more

• Is your website greenhouse friendly?
  The organizers of the Web Directions South conference share their advice for Australian-hosted sites seeking to eliminate their carbon footprint.
  (tags: business hosting )
• Google Presentations Released
  Google has launched the latest in its stable of web-based office applications: Google Presentations. A direct competitor to Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentations is still a simple offering, but may be enough for many less demanding users.
  (tags: google ajax gwt )
• Facebook investors start $10 million fund for developers
  Facebook will be giving away $10 million to developers who submit worthy proposals for Facebook applications—no strings attached!
  (tags: socialnetworks php business )
• Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra
  Yahoo! acquires all the coolest companies! The latest (joining Flickr and del.icio.us) is Zimbra, the pioneers of Ajax-powered email. Yahoo! hopes to use Zimbra to break into educational and institutional markets.
  (tags: yahoo! ajax java business )
• Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird
  Mozilla is splitting off a new company to focus on the development of Thunderbird, its open-source, cross-platform desktop email client.
  (tags: business opensource firefox )
• CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3
  A convincing alternative to the long-promised CSS 3 Advanced Layout module, CSS Grid Positioning has just been released as a public working draft by the W3C. But with critics questioning whether the W3C can finish anything it starts, will it do any good?
  (tags: standards css design )
• jQuery UI: Interactions and Widgets
  jQuery seems set to continue their unbroken streak of “holy crap!”-impressive releases with jQuery UI, a library for building rich web application user interfaces in JavaScript.
  (tags: javascript opensource software )
• The Times, they are a chaaangin’
  After two years of being one of the most notorious paid access sites on the Web, the New York Times has stopped charging for access to the bulk of its content. Could this be the death knell for mass market paid content business models on the Web?
  (tags: business )
• How to create an unobtrusive print this page link with JavaScript
  A quick script that demonstrates how to add a “print this page” link to the page dynamically, using JavaScript, in an unobtrusive manner. For users browsing with JavaScript disabled, the link (which requires JavaScript to work) will not appear.
  (tags: javascript )
• Better Connected, Better Results: Alt Text
  A clear and concise description of the alt attribute, and how to use it to improve the accessibility of your web site.
  (tags: html accessibility )
• WAI-ARIA in HTML
  The Accessible Rich Internat Applications (ARIA) spec specifies roles and states for user interface elements that will enable assistive technologies to make RIAs accessible. This article shows how to include these properties in HTML documents today.
  (tags: accessibility javascript html standards )
• The longdesc lottery
  The latest debate to spring up in the HTML 5 Working Group is over the fate of the longdesc attribute, meant to point to a full description of a complex image. The WHAT-WG’s research shows less than 1% of images that use this attribute do so correctly.
  (tags: html standards accessibility )
• CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL
  Dojo’s Alex Russell is the latest industry voice to publicly despair at the state of CSS standards development.
  (tags: css standards )
• We Are Opening the Social Graph
  Six Apart, the company behind LiveJournal and Vox, is working with open standards like hCard, XFN, and FOAF to turn the entire Web into an open social network – something the MySpaces and Facebooks of the world are desperately trying to prevent.
  (tags: socialnetworks standards )
• IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation
  IBM has released Lotus Symphony, an IBM-branded variation of the free, open source OpenOffice.org office suite. Yawn.
  (tags: opensource )
• WordPress 2.3
  The latest version of this popular, open-source, PHP-based blogging platform is now available. WordPress 2.3 “includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more,”
  (tags: php opensource software )

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