Daily Snippets.

Today just three stories that caught my eye.

This will be a quicky, so let’s run through them, shall we?

Twitter Refurbishes Look

Twitter has unveiled a new two-pane design. The general consensus from those in the know is that it makes Twitter a more advertising friendly site because it will make people spend more time on it.

I personally visit twitter.com only rarely, spending most of my time tweeting and reading tweets from Yoono.

Read a good summary of the new Twitter at OneIndia.com

Google Engineer gets Fired…

…for accessing users accounts.

Yep, one would think that with all the checks in place that he would have known better, but he stepped over the line in any case.

To my surprise, and to Google’s credit this is only the second time this has ever happened. For a company with 20 000 employees that is an achievement.

Read abou it at PC Magazine

Internet Explorer 9 Public Beta Available

And you may color me unimpressed. Still doesn’t pass the acid test, still does not render CSS3 examples as well as Firefox 3.6 .9 and 4Beta or Chrome, still doesn’t feel significantly faster.

Take it for a spin if you want by going to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive

There you have it, three sweet and simple stories to round of the day.

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