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. 12th, here are the highlights:

• Skype is now 5 years old. It launched version 4 of the software to celebrate the event. Stats show the service gets 380.000 new users every day, and has now gone past the 15 million concurrent users mark.
• “Social Media” types are all excited by Twestival, an event due today, which is said to help raise awareness for water issues. For those wondering how to do web marketing and how to create a viral, grassroots campaign, Twestival is a textbook case.
• Apple is rumoured to launch iTunes replay, a video streaming service, with users having their media library on Apple’s servers instead of their hard drive.
• Om Malik writes that Facebook’s future is mobile