Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

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.