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Opera Turns Your Computer Into a Server

Update: Opera has released the beta version of Opera Unite in Opera 10.10 beta. Original Article: Today Opera has released a product (as promised), which it claims reinvents the web. That may seem like an exaggerated statement, but it's an interesting concept nonetheless.

Omniture and comScore Join Forces For Online Metrics

It seems that getting itself acquired by Adobe isn’t enough to keep the web analytics giant Omniture busy.

Internal Staff Spending For Web Analytics Is On The Rise

My good friend, and web analytics guru, Avinash Kaushik once wrote: Cancel the contract with your favorite expensive analytics vendor and take that $50k or $100k or $200k and: 1) Hire a smart analyst for between $50k to whatever maybe your areas great salary 2) Put the rest of the money in your pocket.

Is Cable Purposefully Delaying Super Fast Web?

Depending on whom you ask, you’ll get a much different answer to this question: If Japan can have 160 megabits-per-second over cable for $60 per month, why can’t we have that in the US? Currently, the best one can do in the States is 50 Mbps for $140.

Google's Prophecies for the Web

Last night, Google's SVP, Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg posted something of a state of the Internet address on the Official Google Blog. In this post, he made four predictions for the web:

Web's Masters Recommend Best Mobile Web Practices

As millions of people around the world add web-capable mobile devices to their pockets, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hopes publishers will adopt its recommendations on mobile web development.

Mobile Web Users Seek Banking, Travel Options

Greater usage of the mobile web by consumers in the US and the UK began manifesting a shift in what people want from their cellphones. Hint: it isn't more ringtones.

Berners-Lee Envisions Web As Tool For Worldwide Good

He wasn't referring to their habit of pooping and puking everywhere; the way in which babies cry and scream also doesn't apply.  But in any event, Tim Berners-Lee recently said that the Web is "still in its infancy."

Zune Software Download Now Available!

Hey Everyone, The Zune Software is currently up on Zune.net. » You can find the software HERE. System Requirements

Web 2.0 Could Be Bad For Business

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen warns against believing all the Web 2.0 hype when designing with the end-user in mind. While some 2.0 features can help, the majority of sites should focus on mastering the 1.0 aspects that users know and love.The problem, as Nielsen sees it, is that companies follow too much what the hot trends are, and as a result create sites that are unnecessarily complicated or offer little benefit to the average user.