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• SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent? (MP3, 33.9MB)

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Opera Announces Opera Unite

• Opera Unite
• Opera Unite Seeks to Decentralize the Web (SitePoint)
• Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time (Opera Labs)

Listener Question: Ow.ly vs the DiggBar

• Ow.ly URL Shortener
• Hootsuite
• Tr.im
• Bit.ly

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Ad Campaigns

• “Ten Grand is Buried Here” Campaign (Microsoft)
• If Only The Hungry Used IE8, They Could Get $10,000 Rather Than $0.14 From Microsoft (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft changes IE8 “Ten Grand is Buried Here” campaign, users of all browsers invited to participate (istartedsomething)
• What I learned from the IE8 competition… since I paid for it :) (Microsoft)
• Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts (Microsoft)
• Browser Market Share (Net Applications)

Only 8% of New Yorkers Know What a Browser Is

• What is a Web Browser? No One Knows! (SitePoint)

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• SitePoint Podcast #17: 12 Kinds of Awesome (MP3, 34.1MB)

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Google announces Wave

• Google Wave Preview (Google)
• Google I/O a Real Eye-opener! (SitePoint)
• Google Wave: A Whole New Communication and Collaboration Platform for the Web (Programmable Web)
• Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity (TechCrunch)
• Laconica - The Open Microblogging Tool

Google Maps releases API v3.0 beta

• Announcing Google Maps API v3 (Google)
• Google I/O a Real Eye-opener! (SitePoint)

Opera 10 Beta

• Opera 10 Beta (Opera)
• What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 1) (SitePoint)
• What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 2: Performance) (SitePoint)
• Jon Hicks Discusses the New Opera Skin (Opera)
• Opera Mini (Opera)

Apple Releases Safari 4 (and backs down on tab placement!)

• Safari 4 (Apple)
• WWDC 2009 Keynote (Apple)

Apple gives Microsoft a ribbing at WWDC

• WWDC 2009 Keynote (Apple)
• Acid Tests (The Web Standards Project)

Palm releases the Palm Prē (with the webOS SDK for developers)

• Palm Prē
• Palm Developer Network
• More App Store Stupidity - iPhone eBook App Rejected For Including Kama Sutra (Cult of Mac)

Microsoft Bing

• Bing
• Microsoft vs Google: Bing It On (SitePoint)
• Microsoft Premieres Their Bing Television Commercial (SitePoint)
• Bing Developer Center (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Bing releases API with no usage quotas (Programmable Web)

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• SitePoint Podcast #16: Online Marketing Inside Out (MP3, 29.7MB)

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“Online Marketing Inside Out” with Shayne Tilley and Brandon Eley

• Online Marketing Inside Out (SitePoint)

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• SitePoint Podcast #15: This Way Up (MP3, 24.3MB)

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Google’s New CAPTCHA

• Google’s New CAPTCHA: The Only Way Is Up! (SitePoint)

Mozilla Prism 1.0 Beta

• Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop, Challenges AIR, Silverlight (Webmonkey)
• Prism (Mozilla)

Facebook Shuts Down Newsfeed RSS Application

• Why Facebook Shut Down the Only Useful App it Ever Had (Webmonkey)
• Facebook Shuts Down RSS Feed App (ReadWriteWeb)
• Facebook Announces Support for OpenID Logins (Webmonkey)

Ten Confusing Technology Terms

• The Top 10 Technology Terms that Confuse Clients (SitePoint)

The Konami Code

• Does Your Site Have The Konami Code? (SitePoint)

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• SitePoint Podcast #14: The Cyberdyne Bill (MP3, 30.5MB)

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DiggBar Update

• (Yet) Another DiggBar Update (Digg)
• Digg Caves to Critics on DiggBar (Mashable)

Cybersecurity Bill was Recently Introduced

• Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet, networks during cyber attacks (Network World)

Oracle Acquires Sun Microsystems

• Oracle and MySQL: Ally or Die? (SitePoint)
• Sun and Oracle (Sun)
• Oracle and Sun (Oracle)
• Oracle Snatches Sun, Foiling IBM (The Wall Street Journal)

Font Debate

• Web Fonts: Do Something Positive! (SitePoint)
• F**k the foundries (Mark Pilgrim)
• Browser Wars III: The Platform Wins (Jeremy Keith)

GeoCities Shutting Down

• Yahoo! To Close GeoCities (SitePoint Forums)
• GeoCities (Yahoo!)
• The Death and Life of Geocities (Jeremy Keith)
• Archiveteam

Adopting HTML5 in Anticipation of Future Support

• Anticipating standardization, and deprecating standardization (John Dowdell, Adobe)

CSS3 Template Layout Module on Top of jQuery

• Ready for use: CSS3 Template Layout (Fyrdility)

Opera Turns 15

• Celebrating 15 Years of Browser Innovation (Opera)

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• SitePoint Podcast #13: Digging into the DiggBar (MP3, 28.9MB)

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IE8 Automatic Update On The Way

• IE8 Automatic Update Starting Soon (SitePoint)
• Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8 (IEBlog)

Asa Dotzler’s Graph of Browser Marketshare

• What’s The Web Look Like? (MozillaZine)
• Internet Explorer’s Fail Whale-Like Adoption (Webmonkey)

Get Flex For Free (If You’re Unemployed)

• Adobe® Flex™ Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers (Adobe)
• Adobe Handing Out Flex to Unemployed Developers (Webmonkey)

iPhone 3.0 Push Notification Will Require Server Grunt

• iPhone Developers Will Need Servers To Push (TUAW)

W3C Site Redesign

• The W3C Want Your Feedback (SitePoint)
• Beta Site (W3C)

Digging into the DiggBar

• Google Juice & Page Views: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DiggBar (Digg)
• How to Block the DiggBar (Daring Fireball)
• Sites can block the DiggBar, but is it worth it? (CNet)
• DiggBar S**theads (Flickr)
• Why Engadget is Blocking the DiggBar (Engadget)
• The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar (Search Engine Land)
• Some More Thoughts On The DiggBar (FarukAt.eş)

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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)

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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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• SitePoint Podcast #11: Interview with Microsoft’s Chris Wilson (MP3, 31.8MB)

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• What does the Platform Architect for IE do?
• Why did IE8’s default rendering mode change?
• What’s the deal with the Compatibility View button in IE8?
• Is it true that users are able to remove IE8 from Windows 7?
• If not IE, which browser would be your favorite?
• What’s the plan to get IE6 users upgraded?
• How long will each of the rendering modes in IE be preserved?
• What has been the most drastic change to how we use the Internet since IE6?
• Are there any plans to allow multiple versions of IE installed side-by-side?
• How does the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar compare to Firebug?
• What’s the size and shape of the Internet Explorer team?
• What’s the real value of “paving the cowpaths” in HTML5?
• What big changes in HTML5 promise to be most exciting?
• Does HTML5 threaten to be a monolithic spec? Should it be split?
• What steps are involved in getting new CSS features added to IE?
• What is IE’s plan to compete against the rising popularity of alternatives?
• The font debate: Why is loading TTFs dynamically not enough?
• Which instrument did you play in your rock band?
• The web stack isn’t suitable for building applications. What’s the fix?

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• SitePoint Podcast #10: The Rainbow of Social Media (MP3, 24.4MB)

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Gmail goes down again

• Does Gmail’s Crash Forecast “Dark Cloud Computing”? (SitePoint)
• Gmail Outage Marks Third Downtime in Six Months (Network World)
• Update on Gmail (Official Google Blog)

Skittles’ new marketing campaign

• Skittles.com
• Sweet Tweets (Financial Times)
• Skittles Twitter stunt backfires spectacularly… or does it? (SmartCompany)

Safari 4 Beta released for Mac and Windows

• A First Look at Safari 4 (SitePoint)
• Safari (Apple)

Flash security hole highlights Acrobat vulnerability

• Security Tip: Update Your Flash Player (SitePoint)

RSS required for stimulus money

• RSS Hits the Big Time (Raw Thought)

Twitter background contest

• The Official SitePoint Twitter BackGround competition (SitePoint)

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• SitePoint Podcast #9: SitePoint at SXSWi (MP3, 23.2MB)

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Chrome Extensions Likely by May

• Chrome Extensions Likely by May (SitePoint)
• Extensions for Google Chrome Coming In May? (TechCrunch)

phpBB.com hacked following zero-day exploit in phpList software

• Hacked PHPBB(dot)COM (Google Cache)

Twitter Clickjacking Exploit

• Clickjacking Blocked (Twitter)
• Twitter Don’t Click Exploit (Chris Shiflett)

IE8’s Clickjacking Countermeasures

• IE8 Security Part VII: ClickJacking Defenses (IEBlog)

TechStars Opens in Boston

• TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston (TechCrunch)

Main Show Topic: SitePoint at SXSWi

• SXSW Interactive Festival

Hidden Clip: Amazon’s Kindle 2 Announcement

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