iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For Feb. 17th, here are the highlights:

• DataCenter Knowledge comes back to yesterday’s incident: the problem came from a Czech ISP which broadcasted bogus commands. The problem is similar to the Pakistani ISP which took YouTube down in Feb 2008.
• For UI designers, John Gruber (Daring FireBall) writes that a User Interface’s complexity can be measured in the number of actions (keystrokes, mouse clicks) needed to complete an action.
• Mobile World Congress (MWC09) has opened yesterday in Barcelona, Spain. Lots of new handsets, with a wave of touchscreen smartphones; no Android phones though, and analysts are asking questions.