Web Designer NY put out a brief outline of HTML 5, and what it will be for web designers. It is a very high-level look at the new core language for the web. We found this useful for those that are not familiar with the features of HTML 5, but might be interested in learning [...]

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Time Magazine recently published a list of the “Top 50 Worst Inventions” and the list included both mega-hits: Zynga’s online game Farmville and the location-based social application Foursquare. The buzz for both these web applications has been extraordinary. Foursquare for instance has almost 1 million checkins per day. Farmville now has 30 million virtual farms [...]

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The Federal Trade Commission approved the Google AdMob deal, saying that the deal “is unlikely to harm competition in the emerging market for mobile advertising networks.” AdMob has seen great success in advertising for the iPhone platform. Yet, even with the $750 million dollar deal to buy AdMob, Google will not have a confident guaranty [...]

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Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook. The goal in [...]

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Webdesigner-newyork.com, a subsidiary of Ironpaper, Inc. launched today. The site will focus on NYC market for web design and development and content management. The site will market to small and medium sized businesses with a less-is-more approach to design. Visit: Web designer New York

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The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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Ironpaper recently launched Webintel — a blog that focuses on web development, security and online marketing topics. Webintel will answer common questions for web-based businesses and provide code help for web developers as a kind of share-and-tell knowledge base. The publishing frequency of Webintel will be less than the primary Ironpaper blog /CURRENT/, which gives [...]

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Google is expanding the business opportunities for local search by offering a suggestion technology for Google Local. For users in Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, United States, and United Kingdom–and in eight languages will see suggested search results highlighted below the search input above just above the interactive mapping view in [...]

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The Chrome 4.1 BETA for Windows comes with a new feature that automatically translates the language of a website. The new features for Chrome 4.1.249.1021 are: Automatic translation of web pages More content settings to let you control whether web sites can store cookies, load images, use plug-ins, run JavaScript or show pop-ups. You can [...]

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Microsoft issued a letter to Cryptome.org essentially ending the battle regarding Cryptome’s publication of a confidential document regarding how Microsoft can provide user information to the Government in the case of possible criminal activity. Cryptome is a watchdog site that publishes sensitive corporate and government documents. Microsoft had issued a complaint against the website and [...]

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