Facebook Announces New Design, In-Browser Video Chat With Skype (Gadgets and Technology, Posted Wednesday July 6 2011, 323 tweets)
Microsoft Adds Lasso Gesture to iPad for Bing Searches (Apple Mac/iPhone/iPod, Posted Tuesday July 5 2011, 276 tweets)
Skype Update Adds New Video Chat Features (Apple Mac/iPhone/iPod, Posted Tuesday July 5 2011, 276 tweets)
Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary (Web Development, Posted Friday July 8 2011, 247 tweets)
Why the #AskObama Tweet was Garbled on Screen: Know your UTF-8, Unicode, ASCII and ANSI Decoding Mr. President (.NET, Posted Thursday July 7 2011, 235 tweets)
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML (.NET, Posted Thursday July 7 2011, 183 tweets)
Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh (Information Security, Posted Tuesday July 5 2011, 120 tweets)
Bitcoin Digital Wallet App Hits Android Market (Gadgets and Technology, Posted Thursday July 7 2011, 87 tweets)
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Sematic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML (.NET, Posted Wednesday July 6 2011, 71 tweets)
Social engineering in action: how web ads can lead to malware (Information Security, Posted Thursday July 7 2011, 62 tweets)
Is WebMatrix a Threat to the Professional Developer? (.NET, Posted Tuesday July 5 2011, 7 tweets)
Another week without much standing out from the sites I monitor! Facebook’s announcements were obviously awaited by social media commentators eager to watch them respond to the release of Google+, and apparently a lot of people were interested in improved usability of Bing on their iPads! Also Skype’s update looks to add screen sharing which should be pretty useful.
My picks this week – Scott Hanselman’s post Why the #AskObama Tweet was Garbled on Screen: Know your UTF-8, Unicode, ASCII and ANSI Decoding Mr. President is probably the best attempt you’ll see at making talking about encoding interesting. Also the Dropbox post Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh is worth a read if you’re a Dropbox user – it’s worth being aware of the security discussions around Dropbox at the moment, even if you decide you’re happy right where you are (I am – and would suggest if you’re not, then you might want to review what’s on your Dropbox"). One other thing the Dropbox article revealed is that the company did email users who’s accounts reported suspicious activity after their recent authentication fail, which is good to know (they’d previously stated about 1% of accounts were accessed during the period when their authentication was off, and I’d wondered if the disclosure was going to go further than that).