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"Now that "social media" has been around for a few years and has grown past its stereotypical demographic of teeny-boppers, families are starting to learn that there's no easy solution for accessing online communication channels used by deceased loved ones. Email addresses for contacts that would like to be notified of a death, photos that family members would like to export from online accounts and balances of cash sitting unclaimed in online services like PayPal or eBay are just a few examples of the kinds of assets that are all too often lost upon a death. Toeman was inspired to start the company after being unable to access important online accounts held by his own grandmother, a prolific web user, after her passing."

ReadWriteWeb

IE 8

"Users upgrading from previous versions of IE are going to be pleased. There are bunches of little things, like new bookmark manager and the ability to isolate and print a specific part of any page, that are just added niceties. But it's the "five S's" — speed, stability, security, standards and search — that are the most important enhancements."

Epicenter Wired Blog

The Web turns 20

ZDNet has a nice gallery including the original proposal Tim Berners-Lee submitted in 1989

MIT Technology Review talks about the next-gen HTML 5

"Web Science"

"The relentless rise in Web pages and links is creating emergent properties, from social networking to virtual identity theft, that are transforming society...A new discipline, Web science, aims to discover how Web traits arise and how they can be harnessed or held in check to benefit society."

Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee write in Scientific American

Akamai's "State of the Internet"

"Akamai observed that from a global perspective, South Korea had the highest measured levels of “high broadband” (>5 Mbps) connectivity. In the United States, Delaware topped the list, with over 60% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. At the other end of the bandwidth spectrum, Rwanda and the Solomon Islands topped the list of slowest countries, with 95% or more of the connections to Akamai from both countries occurring at below 256 Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and Virginia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256 Kbps connections. However, in contrast to the international measurements, these states only saw 21% and 18% of connections below 256 Kbps respectively."

"During the first quarter, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 125 unique countries around the world. China and the United States were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for some 30% of this traffic in total. Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at 23 unique network ports. Many of the ports that saw the highest levels of attack traffic were targeted by worms, viruses, and bots that spread across the Internet several years ago."

Akamai