SitePoint Podcast #12: 41 Shades of Blue

Episode 12 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience), with special guests Elliot Jay Stocks (@elliotjaystocks) and Jina Bolton (@sushimonster).

Elliot Jay Stocks is the author of SitePoint’s latest book, Sexy Web Design. Jina Bolton provided the Preface to this book, and also co-wrote SitePoint’s The Art & Science of CSS.

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• SitePoint Podcast #12: 41 Shades of Blue (MP3, 32.8MB)

Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Internet Explorer 8 Released

• Microsoft to Release IE8 Today (SitePoint)
• Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 (Information Week)
• Shocking! Microsoft gets a sense of humor (ComputerWorld)

Google Summer of Code 2009 student applications close today

• Google Summer of Code 2009 is accepting applications

Google Portable Contacts Standard

• Google Implements New Open Standard for Friends Lists (ReadWriteWeb)

Facebook user base hits 200 million. Will Microsoft buy Facebook?

• Facebook Surpasses 200 Million Users (All Facebook)
• Is Microsoft about to buy Facebook for $50 billion? (All Facebook)

Twitter Advertising Twitter-based Apps for Free

• Twitter Starts Serving Ads For Third Party Apps (But They Aren’t Charging For Them) (TechCrunch)

Doug Bowman Leaves Google Complaining of Impossible Conditions for Designers

• Goodbye Google (Stop Design)
• Google Design: The kids are alright (fox@fury)
• Google’s UX Design Principles (Google)

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