Last week Ashley discussed two free services that would monitor your website for downtime and Pingdom is similar to both of those.

When Opera announced the other day that they were coming out with a Web browser for the Nintendo Wii I was pretty skeptical about how functional it could be. After all, I have used Web browsers on other devices other than a computer and it can be frustrating when you don't have a mouse and keyboard.

I think people are starting to go patent crazy and the latest move by Microsoft is just proof of that. CNet was able to scrounge up some patent information that shows how Microsoft is trying to patent the use of feed readers!?! This patent covers:

All the way back in July, we wrote about Protopage, one of the many AJAX desktop's out there. It doesn't take too much time to put together an impressive customized desktop complete with photos, feeds, quick links, weather, etc. Recently, they released their latest version, Protopage V3 with a variety of new features, 30 to be exact!

If you are a reader of Digg, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, or all three, you've probably visited or at least heard of Diggdot.us.  It's a news aggregator that retrieves articles from the three previously listed sites.

So I had never heard of this site Wikio until I started to see a small amount of traffic start to trickle in from it. Like most sites that I see traffic from I went and visited it to see how they were referring people to my site. As soon as you land on their homepage your first thought will probably be that this is just another Digg-ripoff.

Opera fans, users, followers, what would you like to "Ask Opera"?  Daniel Goldman over at Opera Watch who just happens to have joined Opera as a Technical Evangelist has started "Ask Opera." They started this in hopes of making the company more open and transparent. The goal is to allow people to ask questions that they'd like to know about Opera.

Zoho, better known for their powerful online spreadsheet and word processor, have just added yet another service to their Office Suite. Zoho Wiki is a web-based Wiki word processor. One of the most well known Wiki's is Wikipedia which has become a "go-to" site on the web when you're looking for information about any topic.

Yay! Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are celebrating their 10-year anniversary! It seems like only yesterday that I was being told to design websites using only tables because that was the way to line things up and create professional looking websites.

In early November I referenced Project Looking Glass as an amazing idea for a 3D Operating System created by Sun. Well, a big milestone (version 1) was just released and I have to admit that I am quite amazed with how it works.

There's typically not a whole lot going on over at Del.icio.us as far as news goes, however, yesterday they announced a new 'Tagometer' that you'll be able to place on your site.  They call it their new version of the ' usual social bookmarking button,' and below are two different pictures of what the Tagometer looks like.  If you're a blogger, you may find this to be a nice addition to your website.

The biggest hassle with Web development is that different browsers have a tendency to display sites a little differently. Our site is typically verified in the latest two versions of Firefox, Flock, Opera, and Internet Explorer.

Several months ago I wrote an article about changing the default browser in Windows Vista Beta 2 and what a pain it was for anyone that had the User Account Control (UAC) enabled. While the purpose of the UAC is to protect the computer from hackers the simple task of modifying or installing something can be quite a pain.

Take a look at the new AskX which recently launched as a polished up Ask.com that's been infused with new features. They call it their "double-secret sandbox" for testing Ask experiences of the future. This new look includes a three-panel interface.

 In keeping you up to date with happenings over at Flock (social web browser based off of Firefox), I thought I'd fill you in with the latest news.

The PS3 launched just about a month ago on November 17th. When it launched, people who managed to get their hands on one of the prized possessions but didn't really want it, managed to make a hefty profit by selling on eBay.

Over the past two months our feed readers have continued to grow, and as a way of saying thanks to all of the subscribers we have started publishing images within the feed. We have received at least one email a week asking that we place the images in the feed so that users don't have to jump to the site in order to see what we're talking about.

The official news from Blogger Buzz is that Blogger Beta is long gone! That's  because the new version is out of beta and ready for you to use. Lot's of people have been waiting for this release, and here it is.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is scheduled for January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) to showcase new products and innovations. Microsoft is always one of the attendees so they thought this time that they would make us hold our breath a little longer.

Firefox is a truly amazing browser and I think my favorite part about it is that the extensions make it remarkably useful. They add features that I wouldn't expect a Web browser to do, such as serve as an FTP client.