SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent?

Episode 18 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).

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• SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent? (MP3, 33.9MB)

Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Opera Announces Opera Unite

• Opera Unite
• Opera Unite Seeks to Decentralize the Web (SitePoint)
• Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time (Opera Labs)

Listener Question: Ow.ly vs the DiggBar

• Ow.ly URL Shortener
• Hootsuite
• Tr.im
• Bit.ly

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Ad Campaigns

• “Ten Grand is Buried Here” Campaign (Microsoft)
• If Only The Hungry Used IE8, They Could Get $10,000 Rather Than $0.14 From Microsoft (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft changes IE8 “Ten Grand is Buried Here” campaign, users of all browsers invited to participate (istartedsomething)
• What I learned from the IE8 competition… since I paid for it :) (Microsoft)
• Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts (Microsoft)
• Browser Market Share (Net Applications)

Only 8% of New Yorkers Know What a Browser Is

• What is a Web Browser? No One Knows! (SitePoint)

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