Baseline Mag has an overview of how MySpace coped with rapid growth. Basically a good lesson in how not to build a dynamic database backed website. 

The audited 2005 financial statements for the Mozilla foundation are online. Income from search kick-backs was USD 50 M. Profits after tax where about USD 26 M. Wonder if any of this money will find its way back to the unpaid volunteers… See also Mitchell’s blog.

Firebug 1.0 beta is out. If you’re a web developer you need Firebug. It makes a lot of things easy that used to be a pain. It is marv.

Doctor Fun, the long running Internet cartoon, has come to an end. It started back in 1993 which makes it probably the original Internet cartoon. It is, in my opinion, the best cartoon on the net.

Color wheel demo of differing foreground and background colors and how they affect accessibilty.

Google has a new function that lets you compare search and news results for keywords. Above is an image for the trends for Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. It is interesting to note the following:

Q: What’s the only web browser that my Internet banking supports?
A: IE 6

Bill Gates told the IE team “We have to build something for the WWW” The IE team built the Worlds Worst Webrowser…

What’s the different between this

By asymetrical subscribe/unsubscribe I mean a web service that has one way for subscribing and another for unsubscribing. Typically subscribing is easy - you input your credit card details on a web form and you’re done. If you can subscribe via a web page you should be able to unsubscribe via another web page. But a few online services make it very hard to unsubscribe - I think for obvious reasons. This only serves to annoy users even more - hence making it unlikely a user will ever re-subscribe.