iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 23rd, here are the highlights:

• Google reported yesterday excellent results, better than the market, with sales jumping 18%. Google has also been reducing capital expenses, and also putting a hold on many Google products (such as Jaiku or Google Video)
• Paul Bucheit, the creator of GMail, AdSense and FriendFeed, writes that product designers and developers should communicate with code and working prototypes, instead of keynotes, docs and speeches.
• Skype’s growth starts to slow down, Total number of users is now 405 million, but the “free” service is growing faster than the paying features. 
• 10 beautiful UI librairies, which allows web application designers to develop faster and reuse functionality
• Royal Pingdom collected statistics and figures for the usage of the Internet in 2008, such as web servers used, domain names, number of Internet users and web browsers.
• New Screenshot of Jolicloud, a new operating system for netbooks. 

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