23rd World

There’s been much buzz about the recent release of Internet Explorer 7 - and it’s true, the first new version of Microsoft’s browser to come out in half a dozen years is a vast improvement. Most important to your average user, tabbed browsing and rss feed support are finally here for the masses. By all means, upgrade, but while you’re at it, consider downloading a browser that’s been offering tabbed browsing and a dizzying array of optional plugins for years, Firefox.  My favorite .NET tech blog, Coding Horror, points out that while IE has caught up to Firefox (for now) in terms of core features, Firefox has extensibility and community support that IE will likely never match.

Zeldman, author of the vastly popular Designing With Web Standards, offers an amusing comparison of Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 trends here are my favorites:
Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.
Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace.

Web 1.0: Writing.
Web 2.0: Rating.

Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day.
Web 2.0: Technorati.com.

He invited his readers to submit their own as well:

Web 1.0: Animated gif
Web 2.0: Badges

Web 1.0: Bloated Table Code
Web 2.0: Divitis

Web 1.0: “Under Construction”
Web 2.0: “Beta”

Web 1.0: Content is king!
Web 2.0: Contributed content is king!

Web 1.0: drop shadows
Web 2.0: reflections

Web 1.0: “Site best viewed with Internet Explorer”
Web 2.0: “Site best viewed with anything but Internet Explorer”

Web 1.0: “Looking for an experienced designer. Must be able to design and implement websites using HTML, CSS. Knowledge of Javascript a bonus.”
Web 2.0: Looking for an experienced designer. The candidate must be affluent in XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, AJAXY GOODNESS, Ruby on Rails, PHP, JSP, SQL, MySql, ASP.net, XML, Actionscript (2.0 and 3.0), Adobe CS2 products, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Quark, eCommerce, SEO, linux, unix, IIS.

And I reworded a couple:

Web 1.0: Surfing
Web 2.0: Consuming

Web 1.0: Webmonkey
Web 2.0: A List Apart

Google Code Search indexes contents of zip and tarball files and best of all, you can use regular expressions in the query field when searching, as seen in the screenshot from the search page (above).  One thing I noticed was the conventient search language feature, but it’s convenient only for certain languages. All the expected big boys work, searching for lang: and c, c++, c#, java, jsp and even javascript return plenty of hits.  Oddly lang:asp works but lang:vb, vb.net, or visualbasic all return nada. I guess there’s another reason to use c# instead of vb. via: techcrunch