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  • Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
    published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:00 GMT
    Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?" ...
  • Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
    published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT
    App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools. ...
  • Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
    published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
    Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be look...
  • Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
    published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
    We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions. ...
  • Download Mosaic and Browse 1993's Web
    published on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT
    A few adventurous hackers have posted source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the web. If you're running a modern Linux distro, you can download the web's first proper browser and go back to the days before the gold rush. ...
  • Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With IE 9
    published on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:11:00 GMT
    With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. ...
  • Win a Free Ticket to Google I/O 2010
    published on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMT
    Webmonkey is giving away two free passes to Google's upcoming I/O developer event. Read the full details and enter to win on our blog. ...
  • Facebook Patents Social Network Feeds, Raising Innovation Worries
    published on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:40:00 GMT
    Facebook's new patent on publishing streams of user activities has many worried for online innovation. But it could be worse. ...
  • Gmail Features Graduate From Labs to Big Leagues
    published on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:00:00 GMT
    Google has taken the most popular features in Gmail Labs and made them part of Gmail proper. Other experimental features weren't so lucky. ...
  • Google Will Ask Buzz's Early Adopters to Confirm Privacy Choices
    published on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:58:00 GMT
    Google is set to ask early users of its new social networking service to make sure they really want to make their networks public. The move aims to give privacy-enhancing changes to those who signed on immediately. ...