• MoFuse Instantly Converts Sites for the iPhone – MoFuse is a service that will take your website and instantly create a mobile version of it, sparing you the development costs of doing so by hand.
• The 4 Cs of Good Form Design – A simple model, the 4 Cs, for designing new forms or critiquing existing ones.
• Lawsuit targets Network Solutions, ICANN over the 'front running' of domain names – A Los Angeles firm this afternoon has announced a class action against Network Solutions and ICANN over the former's practice of locking up domain names as soon as they are searched for on its site
• BlazeDS – Released in conjunction with Adobe AIR 1 and Flex 3, BlazeDS is an open source backend for connecting AIR and Flex applications to server-side data sources.
• Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 Now Available – They’re out! Full press release here.
• The Rise of Click Fraud: Is Everyone on the Internet a Criminal? – The overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 16.6% in fourth-quarter [2007], up from the 14.2% click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 16.2% for third-quarter 2007.
• All clicks are not equal, says Microsoft – Microsoft is proposing on Monday a new way for marketers to think about the value of clicks on Internet ads, with the understanding that the last click a consumer makes isn't necessarily the most important.
• WaSP Round Table: IE8’s Default Version Targeting Behavior – A worthwhile listen, in which Aaron Gustafson, Faruk Ates, and Porter Glendinning sit down with Microsoft’s Chris Wilson to discuss IE8’s proposed (and controversial) X-UA-Compatible feature for browser version targeting.
• How it works | Openvatar – Openvatar is a avatar system that links with your openid, brilliant
• Click Fraud Keeps Rising, Up 15 percent in 2007 – Forensics has some data out on click fraud (clicks on Internet ads that are not real) in the fourth quarter of 2007 and for the full year. The industry-wide average click fraud rate for the entire year went up 15 percent, ending the year with 16.6 percent
• Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft's browser issues – In an editorial on The Register, Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie complains that the browser market is effectively a monopoly, and suggests what changes Microsoft must make in order to remedy this.
• Google Analytics Hack » Count Me Out! – keep your Google Analytics data pure you should remove all traffic generated by yourself or others that may not be real visitors. For example, if your company has a large call center you should remove the traffic they generate
• Microsoft Sings a New Tune? Wants to Play Nice With Open-Source – Microsoft is providing a covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols.
• Logo War: Red Hat Takes On DataPortability – After months of positive news, the DataPortability group has had its first hiccup, a cease and desist letter from RedHat over their use of the Fedora logo.
• 500 Million Downloads of Firefox (almost) – The Firefox browser has been downloaded nearly 500 million times, says their SpreadFirefox website. Parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice.
• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String – That’s right. Microsoft has lifted the veil on IE8’s user agent string. Yawn.
• YUI 2.5.0 Released – 6 new components: Layout Manager, Uploader, Resize Utility, ImageCropper, Cookie Utility and a ProfilerViewer Control that works in tandem with the YUI Profiler.
• Facebook loses a few users – Facebook has suffered its first drop in monthly users, according to numbers from web analytics outfit Nielsen Online. Five per cent fewer people in the UK visited the site in January compared to the previous month.

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• Social Media Buzz Pocket Mining: The New Keyword Research – An interesting description of tools that take the temperature of a social community's “chatter” patterns.
• Beware of id and name attribute mixups when using getElementById in Internet Explorer – "When using getElementById to get a reference to an element via the id attribute, Internet Explorer for Windows (and some versions of Opera) will also match an element whose name attribute contains the same value."
• Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Release Notes – "Firefox 3 Beta 3 includes approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements."
• GWT-Ext 2.0 Released – The GWT-EXT team has announced the release of version 2.0 this week. The project is a combination of the Google Web Kit and Ext.
• 6% of users click 50% of all ads – This study illustrates that heavy clickers represent just 6% of the online population, yet account for 50% of all display ad clicks.
• Handy jQuery API Reference – A simple, useful reference guide for the jQuery API.
• Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth – Yahoo! launches surprisingly reasonably priced web hosting for small and medium sized businesses. Unlimited storage and bandwidth for $11.95 per month.
• Gallery: How Google Got Its Colorful Logo – The various iterations that the designer of Google's logo went through before settling on the final logo. I have to say, they're pretty ordinary!
• ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses | CNET News.com – The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.
• Macworld Encore – Very funny and useful Macworld session by Merlin Mann. Another angle on GTD.
• Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement – Microsoft issued an official statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. that its Board of Directors has rejected Microsoft's previously announced proposal to acquire Yahoo!

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• $1.2m paid for the letter ’s’ in a domain
  A British travel company has paid $US1.1 million ($A1.2m) for the domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively $1 million just for the letter “S” since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.
  (tags: domain valuation)
• uTest – Software Testing Community
  A software testing tool based on the “crowdsourcing” business model.
  (tags: testing crowdsourcing development software qa)
• Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth
  Yahoo! launches surprisingly reasonably priced web hosting for small and medium sized businesses. Unlimited storage and bandwidth for $11.95 per month!
  (tags: hosting yahoo!)
• Safari is about to get crazy fast
  Holy cow is this thing fast! I am currently testing Webkit build r30090 (DMG download link) against standard Leopard Safari 3.04. This unoptimized WebKit build version is running circles around the standard Safari browser. It isn’t even close.
  (tags: apple safari browser firefox)
• W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
  The W3C is suffering from its own success. If only developers could get a handle on XML catalogs, or popular XML validating parsers began bundling common DTDs like these, the W3C might be able to put these resources to better use.
  (tags: w3c standards xml)
• PayPal funds freeze plan draws fire
  Plan to hold payments sent through its PayPal payment service for up to 21 days in certain circumstances. The freeze will apply to transactions eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) considers high-risk, and is intended to protect buyers from the hazards of a bad tran
  (tags: ebay paypal)
• Court Finds That Trolls Can Remain Anonymous
  New judgement from the California courts, affecting anyone who owns a blog or forum where people can comment.
  (tags: blog comment troll forum privacy)
• Apple’s Safari 3.1 to support downloadable web fonts, more
  The ability to download and immediately render non-standard web fonts is just one of several advancements Apple Inc. has planned for Safari 3.1, a small but significant update to its share-gaining web browser for both the Mac and Windows PCs.
  (tags: apple safari design fonts)
• OpenID Welcomes Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM
  OpenID is welcoming some big new partners to the club – Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM
  (tags: openid microsoft google verisign ibm)
• Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud
  A completely in-browser development environment where RoR programmers can build their apps instead of doing so with software on their own computers. Allows you to deploy your application to Amazon EC2 automatically when you’re done.
  (tags: rails ruby amazonwebservices ec2)
• Exposing device capabilities to web applications
  “There is huge potential for mobile web applications that can access device capabilities from client-side scripts.” The W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative takes on mobile phone API access from web applications.
  (tags: mobile standards w3c javascript)
• Web Site Grader
  This reporting tool produces some pretty useful statistics from an SEO point of view.
  (tags: seo tools analytics marketing )
• Performance Research, Part 5: iPhone Cacheability – Making it Stick
  The YUI blog investigates how to optimize web performance for the iPhone. The iPhone’s cache clears at each power cycle, and it will not cache files 25KB or larger. These facts call for special considerations when optimizing for performance.
  (tags: yahoo! apple iphone mobile)
• The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
  Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to their articles.
  (tags: SEO black.hat bad.publicity)
• Opera Mobile 9.5 with Flash Lite 3.0
  Opera brings Flash Lite 3.0 to millions of new devices with the release of Opera Mobile 9.5. The new version also adds support for Opera Widgets, SVG 1.2, and more.
  (tags: opera mobile software flash)
• Amazon Payments Account Management
  Do you want to accept Amazon Payments on your website? Integrate within few minutes and accept payments on your website with “Pay Now” button. Give your customers a familiar Amazon payments experience and fraud protection.
  (tags: web amazon ecommerce payment api development)
• Aviary Invites Readers To Try Their Online Design Suite
  Aviary has released the first of its massive suite of online design apps to private beta testing: image editor Phoenix and pattern maker Peacock. An impressive YouTube video shows Phoenix in use.
  (tags: design ria aviary phoenix peacock)
• Bobby and WebXact No Longer Free Tools
  As of February 1, 2008 the Watchfire WebXact and Bobby Online products will no longer be publicly available.
  (tags: accessibility tools testing usability 508 bobby)

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• 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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• +1.5 Years: Where Are We Now?
  The Dojo Toolkit’s Alex Russell notes the amount of time that has passed since IE7 was released, and how little has been said by Microsoft about IE.Next. Is Microsoft working on something amazing in secret, or is IE at risk of renewed stagnation?
  (tags: ie microsoft )
• Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
  Like the SitePoint Design Contests, Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is launching a complete re-write of the service to improve the scalability and agility of the system. A complete rewrite means a complete redesign, however, with plenty of new features!
  (tags: socialnetworks yahoo! )
• Mobile Usability Tips #1 – Registration and Login
  The first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile web sites, this brief article provides hints on how to design usable registration and login forms for mobile web sites.
  (tags: mobile design usability )
• WordPress 2.2.3
  WordPress 2.2.3 contains an important security fix. Upgrade your installation immediately.
  (tags: security php software )
• Rainbow Hash Cracking
  An eye-opening peek into the password cracking technique of Rainbow Hashes, which in a recent test was able to crack the password “Fgpyyih804423″ in 160 seconds. The good news is there are simple things you can do to guard against this kind of attack.
  (tags: security )
• WYMeditor 0.4 released
  The latest release of this somewhat experimental JavaScript semantic HTML WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editing component is built on jQuery 1.1.4 and includes its own XHTML and CSS parsing code, rather than relying on the browser to do it.
  (tags: software javascript wysiwyg )
• Why we need standards support in HTML email
  This call to action from Campaign Monitor, the experts in standards-compliant HTML email (or as close as it is possible to achieve these days), builds a case for HTML and CSS standards compliance in email clients, and asks you to help make it happen.
  (tags: email html standards )
• Help us form a baseline for standards support
  The Campaign Monitor folks begin the process of encouraging widespread standards support for HTML email by developing a baseline list of features that we should be helping email client developers to support.
  (tags: email standards html )
• Holy Komodo!
  ActiveState (yes, as in ActiveState Perl) is open sourcing large chunks of its flagship product, Komodo IDE, a complete environment for Web developers working with Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as client-side HTML/CSS/JavaScript code.
  (tags: software opensource php rubyonrails python )
• jQuery 1.2: jQuery.extend(“Awesome”)
  A major new release of this nimble JavaScript library, jQuery 1.2 contains too many new features to go into here. Suffice it to say, this upgrade will make any JavaScript developer’s day.
  (tags: javascript software opensource )
• BEA and Adobe Form Enterprise Partnership
  In enterprise news, BEA will bundle Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 with BEA Workshop™ Studio. In return, Adobe will distribute evaluation licenses of BEA Weblogic Server with Adobe LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite (ES).
  (tags: enterprise adobe flex air java )
• Sun/Microsoft Announcement
  In a break from long tradition, Sun will offer Windows Server OEM licenses to run on Sun x64 server hardware. It will be interesting to see if (and how) this will affect the Solaris market.
  (tags: enterprise windows solaris )
• The name riddle
  A solid piece on how to design forms to prompt users for their name. This sounds simple, but the form of names—and how they should be used—varies wildly in different parts of the world.
  (tags: design i18n )
• Can the alt attribute be omitted without hurting accessibility?
  Roger Johansson provides an excellent summary of discussion within the HTML 5 working group about the fate of the alt attribute.
  (tags: html standards accessibility )
• Social Networks And Group Formation
  A fascinating article about the structures of online social networking. It turns out they very much mirror the patterns of real-world social networks, which were described as far back as the 1940s.
  (tags: socialnetworks )
• User Testing footage of header/id combinations, @summary and @longdesc
  Controversy surrounding HTML table markup within the HTML 5 Working Group continues. These user testing videos not only seeks to settle the argument, but makes fascinating viewing if you haven’t a seen screen reader in use by an experienced user.
  (tags: html accessibility )
• Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM
  Long thought to be un-stylable, file upload fields in HTML forms can actually be styled to look however you like with this clever JavaScript hack by Shaun Inman.
  (tags: html css javascript design )
• The Browser.Next List
  Another excellent list from Dojo’s Alex Russell. This time, it’s a list of simple JavaScript/DOM features that would make developers’ lives so much easier.
  (tags: javascript )

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• GWT 1.4 release and out of beta
  The latest release of Google Web Toolkit is out, and this is the first release not marked as Beta! As usual, the release is full of must-have improvements, including fundamental improvements to application size and performance.
  (tags: java javascript google gwt software opensource )
• Plone 3.0 released!
  A major update to the venerable Python CMS based on the Zope framework , Plone 3.0 includes many powerful new features, including document versioning, inline (Ajax) editing, link checking, and tons more!
  (tags: python opensource software )
• 12 Things You Should Dislike About PHP
  Another impressive list of things you may not know about PHP, this time focusing on the annoying foibles of the language.
  (tags: php )
• 15 Cool Things About PHP That Most People Overlook
  Far from another lame collection of semi-obscure PHP functions, this list of language features will likely contain at least a few mind-blowing items for all but the most seasoned of PHP veterans.
  (tags: php )
• The IPhone Is IE4 Again (in a good way)
  Joe Hewitt (of Firebug and iUI fame) speaks out against those who decry the iPhone for encouraging the development of sites that only work on a single device. His point is well taken, but his attack against the standards community is a bit over the top.
  (tags: standards mobile ie )
• New Flash(R) Developer Center launched
  In addition to the respected YUI JavaScript library, Yahoo! has now launched its Flash Developer Center to host ASTRA: the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, including many useful Flash components and libraries.
  (tags: flash flex yahoo! opensource software )

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