I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list.
Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com with your offer – I’d expect they will only reply to serious offers, you know – offers that contain at least 7 digits. I’m starting a financing campaign, if you’re interested in helping me acquire the domain to redirect it back to BestTechie. I think that might just be a worth while investment in the long run. Full story here.
Story #2: Internet Explorer market share grew by 0.57% in the month of June. Shocked? Me too. Though, supposedly, IE 9 is really good. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. But is Microsoft too late? Is the damage already done? Could this just a fluke? Check back in August (actually, just check in every day) and we will find out. Full story here.
Story #3: Mozilla has submitted the Firefox Home app to Apple’s App Store. Will it be approved? I think so. I mean, they accepted Opera, so why not? Firefox Home isn’t even a full-on browser, it just allows you to easily open your Firefox bookmarks, history, and tabs on your iPhone and open them in Safari. Some app. Full story here.
Story #4: Google has implemented realtime statistics into Blogger. This is huge. I really hope this means they are working on realtime statistics for Google Analytics. Full story here.
Story #5: Diaspora, the decentralized “Facebook”, if you will is making some progress with development. And that’s good, considering they were pledged $200,000+ by people all around the world. One of those people was even Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook. What? I know. Must be some kind of PR stunt. Nonetheless, the project looks good, but maybe that’s because it really resembles Facebook so far. Full story here.