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It might take a few more years, or it might happen suddenly, but trends appear to indicate that the time when Internet Explorer is used by the majority of people on the web will soon come to an end. New numbers from analytics firm Net Applications put IE at a mere 67.5%, having dropped more than 7% last year. The bulk of (Read More)
: As the great Marc Presnky points out there is a vast differential between the fluent and new to the net - digital immigrants vs digital natives is massive. And even the natives are not properly taught to search the net. Time to look to education. Not browsers. Then at least we can all make an informed decision about browsers. Personally I am a recent chrome adoptee. Ex Flock.
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Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people attended the inauguration in Washington D.C., Facebook invited the rest of the world to watch the moment online. Thanks to a partnership with CNN, online visitors were able to use CNN.com's video player to watch the live broadca (Read More)
: I thought, intitially, that the service, with so many people destined to use it, would have been patchy at best. But alas no, it was actually fantastic :)
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Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon. Is it (Read More)