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• Surfers conservative when it comes to judging web talent - A study shows that people tend to flock to more popular sites rather than less popular ones, basically creating a never-ending cycle of traffic to popular sites, and forcing newcomers to work harder to draw attention.
• Yahoo plans a more social, open homepage design - Yahoo! is trying to outdo Google by mimicking iGoogle. Right...
• Web to get more social as OAuth is sanctioned for use - A new protocol is being adopted by major Internet players as a way to transfer information between one another, which will allow for much, much more data portability. Hopefully this means I can stop reposting photos on both Facebook and Flickr.
• Enable Chrome's Best Features in Firefox - For those of us who don't use PC's on a regular basis, and are intrigued by the feature-list of Chrome, Google's entry into the browser wars, here's a list of plugins you can install to have most of the features on your shiny, shiny Mac.
• Hug a developer today - Developers are hurting, and they need your love. Won't you please hug a developer today?