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The results are in for The top 100 Webware sites for 2007. The winners are:

Firefox (Browsing)
Gmail (Communication)
Gaia Online (Community) *I thought Digg was going to win.
Google (Data)
Stardoll (Entertainment)
Youtube (Media)
Google Mobile (Mobile)
ebay (Productivity and Commerce)
WordPress (Publishing) *YAY!
Wikipedia (Reference)

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Apple has released Safari for Windows today. You can download it at http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
I am going to install it on my computer to see how it runs. Anyone has installed it yet?
Thanks to WL, SD and SM (Bloke Vogue) for the heads-up. :)
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Computerworld published an article on The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills discussing in details a list of dying computer skills which are decreasing in demands in today’s corporate world. The list consists of:

Cobol*
Nonrelational DBMS
Non-IP networks
cc:Mail
ColdFusion*
C programming*
PowerBuilder*
Certified NetWare Engineers
PC network administrators
OS/2

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I received an email from Google Analytics Support Team this morning about the release of a new version of the Google Analytics reporting interface. The new version is so much cleaner, faster and easier to use and I am loving it.

Product tour
The following is an excerpt from the email I [...]

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I stumbled upon TIOBE Programming Community Index website when researching about programming languages trends.
My two-cents
Java, C and C++ have been dominating the game for quite some time now, and I think it is going to remain the same for a while. PHP seems to be doing well and more so now with [...]

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Digg is currently looking for skilled professionals to join their team. The following positions are available for those interested:

Web Designer (/information architect/ux engineer/standardista/loads of other stuff too)
Database Administrator
Software Developers
Quality Assurance Manager
Quality Assurance Analyst

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TWire has reported that the social networking website MySpace will be acquiring Photobucket, a popular photo sharing website which allow users use to store images to use on ebay, MySpace, Friendster and the likes. The deal is said to be worth about $US250-300 million.
In other news, ebay, the leader in online [...]

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Yahoo! has just released a Browser IM which is an Instant messenger on your web browser. With Yahoo! Browser IM, you no longer have to download a stand alone IM software to your computer.
By dispensing with the need to install and run a separate IM program, Yahoo is looking to reach [...]

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MIX07 seems to be talk of the town this week. What’s MIX07, you ask? It is an event hosted by Microsoft to discuss about latest web technologies, latest Microsoft products such as Windows Vista™, Xbox 360™, Windows Mobile® and Windows Live™, upcoming Microsoft technologies which they call “Technology X” and so on. [...]

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MySpace News is a news aggregator which provides syndicated news content from news websites and blogs such as Yahoo! News, NY Times, USA Today, CNN, CBS News, Fox News, PopBytes, Fashion Week Daily and so on. News are assigned to a wide variety of categories, and you can suggest a new category if you [...]

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