Google not invited to Facebook’s party

Google not invited to Facebook’s party:

Looks like the two Silicon Valley giants, Facebook and Google aren’t going to give up their ground so easily as the war rages on, with the former requiring app developers to use only in-app advertising from approved vendors. Of course, it is no surprise that Google is not on the list. Apparently, the social network giant has mentioned that it has modified its rules and requires apps with in-app advertising to only use Facebook-approved companies, as well as other companies who are willing to sign off on the company’s Advertising guidelines. Both Adsense and Double Click are not on the list, and does it come as no surprise that they both belong to the largest advertising company on the Web? What do you think of this move – will Google be doing anything down the road as a retaliatory measure?

Google not invited to Facebook’s party, By Ubergizmo.

Hands-on: Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate

Hands-on: Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate:

After tens of millions of downloads of last year's beta, Microsoft has shipped the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. The latest iteration of Microsoft's new browser boasts a few new features, a refined user interface, better performance, and improved standards compliance.

Perhaps as a testament to the success of its platform preview program and beta release, the changes are, for the most part, quite subtle. The platform previews have allowed Web developers to track the progress of the browser's core rendering engine, and to submit bugs and feedback to the company; thus, when the beta was released, there were few surprises in the browser's treatment of webpages.

The new user interface was the big surprise of the beta: taking a leaf from Chrome's book, Internet Explorer 9's user interface is a pared down, minimal affair, designed to be much less intrusive and to put the focus squarely on websites rather than the browser itself.