A few weeks ago, we noted that the Denver, CO-based design company Aten Design Group was holding a funeral for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the much-hated browser. The funeral took place last night. It wasn’t without controversy as there were protestors, and even a bouquet of flowers sent by Microsoft. …

BBC NEWS : Europeans are not getting as wide a choice of browser as they may think, claims a web designer.
From 1 March, European users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer began seeing pop-up screens asking them if they wanted to try a different browser.
They choice was offered to settle an anti-trust …

While Google Buzz tries to make itself a competitor of Facebook and Twitter, there has been a poll by the Mashable users which results in the lead of Facebook.
Last week we saw free beat out premium in our online dating services head-to-head, and this week we wanted to check in …

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo said Thursday that their online search deal has received approval from U.S. and European Union regulators, paving the way for the two companies to combine much of their Internet search business.
Under the 10-year deal, which was announced in July, Yahoo.com and Bing.com will …

It’s hard to believe that YouTube, which serves more than 1 billion videos per day, is a mere five years old today. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
YouTube wasn’t the clear leader in 2005: it competed with a range of services from Veoh to Vimeo to …

Perhaps foreshadowed by Google’s adoption of HTML 5, Jeffrey Zeldman pointed out late last week; the future of XHTML 2 is no more. Obviously the selectors we use in CSS 3 depend on the underlying markup we work with, so this news is very interesting and we think timely. As …

If you’ve got a Wordpress.com blog, you’ll be pleased to know you can now share an itsy-bitsy-Wordpress-linky to each of your posts.
That’s right: WordPress has launched the WP.me short URL, designed for linking to your blog posts from space-limited sites like Twitter. It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or …

(CNN) — Word of a Facebook bug spread on the social networking site Wednesday before the “unnamed app,” which officials say wasn’t harmful, was fixed. Facebook members used their status updates to warn online friends about the glitch. The following was the language many users copied and passed on:
“ALERT >>>>> …

There is a direct relationship between simplicity and user engagement on the web. Less clicks means more users — period. When combined with tools like smartphones, virtual assistants will migrate user interactions towards a far more frictionless e-commerce, consumption and collaboration model.
You will soon pick up your phone and start …

The iPad was supposed to change the face of computing, to be a completely new form of digital experience.
But what Steve Jobs showed us yesterday was in fact little more than a giant iPhone. A giant iPhone that doesn’t even make calls. Many were expecting cameras, kickstands and some crazy …