Sean Delaney

“Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication”

I have to agree with this statement from the BBC Technology website.  I’ve noticed that i’m in more contact with my fellow freelancers, designers, developers and programmers et al through social networking websites than by email.  I’ve even had new clients contact me through Twitter instead of my contact page on seandelaney.co.uk.

Social Networking sites have become the “real time” communication protocol.

I’ve just read a post where Microsoft are claiming that the new version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 8 expected to be released next week is faster than Mozilla’s Firefox 3.05 and Google’s Chrome 1.0 web browsers!

Microsoft have even produced a report and supporting video that claim IE8 is three times as fast as Firefox when it comes to loading webpages and one third quicker than Chrome.  In my opinion I think this is nonsense as ive been beta testing IE8 since it was first released as beta and ive found it can take up to 10 secs to load a tab running localhost web applications that i’m building.

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An experiment using only CSS by Ryan Roberts , a talented freelance Web Designer based in Aberdeen!

http://ryanroberts.co.uk/_dev/cssmile/

Check out the source code and be sure to hover over both the smiley faces.

This is pure class Ryan - well done!