Time Warner Sells AOL, Delicious Relaunches, Sitemeter vs. Internet Explorer, Textnovel, CSS Optimizer
The AOL that you know might become a thing of the past. Media giant Time Warner is looking to sell off the technology concern in “about three to four pieces.” Both Yahoo and Microsoft are have shown interest in the content and advertising portions of the company, which has a combined $10 billion price tag attached. AOL’s “Platform-A” advertising averages roughly 170.3 million users a month, ranking them higher than both Yahoo and Google in terms of total views.
In other news, Delicious has officially relaunched. Not only is the social bookmarking site sporting a new, streamlined look, it has a new address as well. Users who go to the traditional “del.icio.us” URL will now be redirected to delicious.com. Aside from the cosmetic changes, the new and improved Delicious features faster searches and higher quality search results. The upgraded Delicious.com is up and running now.
If you frequent sites that use the Sitemeter web analysis software and also use Internet Explorer, then you might have been experiencing some trouble as of late. Thanks to a previously unknown bug in the software, IE users were greeted with a blank page, followed by an error message. After the message is taken care of, the site disappears. Sites and blogs affected include tech blog Gizmodo and lifestyle blog Lifehacker.
Throughout the ages, people have used everything from quills to laptops in order to create literary masterpieces. And now, it’s time for your cell phone to join the party. Textnovel lets users write stories on their cell phones and then share them with whomever they please. Already a massive fad in Japan, Textnovel has all the tools to take off in North American. So go on and write. Who knows? That girl at the grocery store with the Sidekick might just be the next Hemingway.
A well maintained site featuring Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, can be powerful tool in today’s web-driven world. A site full of overdone or improperly written code, on the other hand, could spell doom for your both your site and your prospects. That is why tools such as the CSS Optimizer are so useful. The no-frill page does what it sets out to do – cleans your code until nothing but a turbo-charged module waiting to be implemented. The CSS Optimizer is a completely free service.












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