Linkification v6

Linkification v6
News / Web Happenings:

Geekzone layout changes - what do you think? - I was lucky enough to be asked by Mauricio to help move the design of Geekzone forward towards a pure CSS layout. Stage one has been to replace the old menu and footer. What do you think?

Cisco to buy Jabber
Adobe Creative Suite 4 released
T-Mobile unveils the T-Mobile G1 powered by Android
Auto-trader folds as market moves online - a classic case of not moving with the times.
Hubert Chang claims he co-designed Google
Skype for Asterisk Beta announced
Myspace Music launches (yawn) - yawn is right.

General:

Windows 7 screenshots
Windows 7 Video Preview
Converting .docx to .doc

Neat stuff:

A photo a day for 17 years - Epic!
xkcd - tones

Development:

StackOverflow now in public beta - a new online community for software developers to ask and answer questions. I've been in the private beta for a while now and I'd recommend developers check it out.

FAIL of the week:

Seed FAIL

New Zealand broadband according to Akamai
I have just noticed the Akamai State of the Internet report Q2 2008 is out now. Interesting stats from around the world - worth reading it.

From a New Zealand perspective here is the only data provided:

- more than 962,000 uniqye IP addresses, a 3.78% increase from Q1 2008, about 0.23 per capita (or about 1 for almost four people here);
- only 2% connected to Akamai servers at 5 Mbps or more - 0.01 "high broadband" per capita;
- 52% connected to Akamai servers at 2 Mbps or more;
- 10% connected at 256 Kbps or less.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2008 RTMs in initial form
Microsoft have finished of the first version of the new Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) which replaces the current ISA Server 2006 product.

This initial version is titled 'Forefront Threat Management Gateway Small Business Edition'... (more in the full post)

The new Microsoft ads... enjoy!
Here we go, for your viewing pleasure:







I like those. Why? Because when Apple launched the "I am a Mac, I am PC" ads they decide to approach the whole game as a battle between stereotypes. They also had no moral problems in comparing the platforms directly. Which is ok, when done by a independent party - not by a company that will of course show some bias.

So the Microsoft "I am a PC" ads are not like that. They don't try to make the competition look bad. Instead they try to show you why you should care.

And yes, I do have Macs here at home too.

Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) finalised - incl Forefront TMG 2008
Microsoft have today finalised their new server software bundle - Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008. This comes less than 4 weeks after Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 was released to manufacturing.

Of special interest is that th... (more in the full post)