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Aug 6, 2013	Firefox 23 Launches With Built-in Share Button, New Security Features On Desktop, Updated “Awesome Screen” On Mobile	Mozilla today launched Firefox 23, which adds a couple of interesting features that extend the browser’s capabilities beyond just displaying websites. On the desktop, Firefox recently added the ability to integrate a number of social sites ...
Jun 13, 2013	CloudFlare’s Mirage 2.0 Speeds Up Mobile Sites By Using Virtualized Images And Minimizing Requests	About a year ago, CloudFlare launched Mirage, a service for its paying users that aimed to speed up website loading times by delivering smaller images and using “lazy load” to just download images that actually appeared in the browser’s vie...
Mar 25, 2013	The Google shutdown parade continues; next up: site-blocking in search	reader comments 135 with 114 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Google kills product Google is killing Android Auto for phones (if you even know what that is) Google kills its augmented...
Mar 22, 2013	NewsBlur (YC S12) scales on a shoestring, handles a huge influx of users post-Google-Reader-pocalypse	One of the more interesting stories to emerge from the demise of Google Reader is that of NewsBlur, a previously small, but very nice, open source alternative RSS reader. NewsBlur is a one-man operation that was humming along quite nicely,...
Nov 13, 2012	Microsoft Brings Internet Explorer 10 Preview To Windows 7 PCs	As promised last month, Microsoft today expanded access to its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, by launching a preview of IE 10 for Windows 7. Previously, IE 10 was only available on Windows 8. The update includes the same standards-based ...
Sep 27, 2012	Mozilla’s “just works” Persona login system hits beta	reader comments 34 with 27 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mozilla is moving Persona, its online identity system, out of the experimental category and is releasing an official beta. ...
Sep 21, 2012	W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016	reader comments 50 with 39 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has pro...
Jun 26, 2012	W3C Declare CSS Media Queries as a Web Standard	It looks like the W3C, have given CSS Media Queries their official backing and as such it looks like we should have a greater adoption of it in in large corporate and government organizations that usually look towards W3C’s blessing for “ne...
Jun 15, 2012	Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol	CloudFlare, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google’s SPDY protocol on its network. For the time being, this is just a beta test (you can sign up ...
May 20, 2012	Running client-side Ruby on the Web with Native Client or Emscripten	reader comments 15 with 8 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The Ruby programming language runtime has been ported to Google’s Native Client (NaCl) framework. The port, which was implem...
May 17, 2012	What’s responsive Web design all about?	The website for Washington's Sasquatch Music Festival responds automatically to the width of the browser's window. reader comments 73 with 54 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Getting ...
Apr 28, 2012	Firefox 13 beta turns on the SPDY, tabs on demand	reader comments 34 with 24 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now. If you...
Apr 18, 2012	Are Facebook and Apple Really a Threat to the Open Net?	Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently made some mildly incendiary comments to The Guardian about how companies like Facebook and Apple are a threat to the openness of the internet. In the interview, Brin denounced the highly protected prac...
Apr 3, 2012	Firefox for Windows 8 beginning to take shape	A screenshot of the Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype Photograph by www.brianbondy.com reader comments 47 with 33 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mozilla is making progress in its ef...
Dec 15, 2011	Microsoft’s new automatic update plan could (finally) spell the end of IE6	reader comments 118 with 77 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Microsoft has announced that starting in January 2012 Internet Explorer will, like Chrome, Firefox and Opera, no longer pe...
Nov 4, 2011	After Developer Backlash, HTML5 Gets Its ‘Time’ Element Back	When word got out last week that the element would be dropped from the HTML5 specification, there was a small but fierce uproar within the Web standards and developer communities. “I think this is a bad decision,” wrote Bruce Lawson, Web E...
Sep 15, 2011	Hands-on: Firefox Mobile’s new Android tablet interface	reader comments 21 with 19 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mozilla's mobile user experience designer, Ian Barlow, revealed some mockups earlier this month of ...
Aug 24, 2011	Mozilla WebAPI wants to replace native apps with HTML5	Photograph by Hyoung Won Park reader comments 43 with 32 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mozilla has launched an ambitious new project aimed at breaking down the proprietary app syst...
May 14, 2011	45 HTML5 Media Players + Tutorials and Resources	There is a comparison chart here of 20 HTML5 video players. HTML5 Media Players Acorn Media Player, Accessible and customizable HTML5 media player (Cristian I. Colceriu.) Akamai’s Open Video Player for HTML5 (Akamai Technologies) Ambilight...
Apr 18, 2011	Yahoo announces the death of Buzz on April 21, but nobody cares	As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21. But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact that ...
Apr 7, 2011	There are millions to be made in the iPhone underground economy	For almost as long as there have been iPhones there has been "jailbreaking," the process of hacking the iPhone so that it will install apps not sold by Apple's App Store. Jailbreaking is popular, so much so that the Washington Pos...
Mar 20, 2011	HTTPS is more secure, so why isn’t the Web using it?	reader comments 138 with 83 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it onl...
Oct 28, 2010	Adobe shows off Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool	reader comments 61 with 42 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Even though its Flash technology is used as a punching bag by Web standards fans, Adobe has been building tools that embrac...
Aug 30, 2010	Chrome 7 shows off hardware acceleration, “Tabpose”	reader comments 61 with 44 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Google's Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics—the latest trend for web browsers that has already...
Mar 3, 2010	Roundup: Google’s index goes real time, Android intros Gesture Search and more	Here’s the latest action: Google’s index goes real-time — Soon, all web publishers will be able to have their new content show up in Google search results as soon as it appears on their web sites. This follows the intro of real-time Twitter...
Sep 30, 2009	Cliqset Transforms Social Media Feeds Into Standardized, Real-Time Data	Social media aggregator Cliqset today announced a new beta version of its platform that aggregates activity feeds from 70 different social media sites, transforms them into normalized Activity Streams standard data and then pushes them out ...
Sep 14, 2009	Google Helps People Get Their Data Out Of Google	Too many companies these days are focused on ways to keep you locked-in somehow or another, so it’s quite refreshing to find out that Google is now officially announcing its Data Liberation Front, which does exactly the opposite: systematic...
May 31, 2009	HTML 5 and Web video: freeing rich media from plugin prison	reader comments 95 with 56 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The expressive power of the Web is largely made possible by open standards. HTML, the vendor-neutral markup language that s...
May 19, 2009	AdaptiveBlue Enhances Sticky Web Browser Companion Glue With API	Glue (formerly known as BlueOrganizer), now boasts its own API. Glue is a contextual social networking layer powered by a Firefox browser add-on which startup AdaptiveBlue added to its semantic browsing technology platform late last year. T...
Apr 21, 2009	Report: Interest in online video up, channel loyalty down	Maybe Hulu’s expensive Superbowl ad wasn’t such a bad idea. Consumer interest in computer-based television viewing is on the rise, according to a recent study from consulting firm Accenture. Furthermore, as the number of ways to watch TV ex...
Nov 25, 2008	StockTwits creates another way to unlock Twitter’s potential	StockTwits, a startup that aggregates stock-related “tweets” on micro-messaging service Twitter, has released a Firefox extension that links stock tickers to the StockTwits site. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures (a Twitter investor) say...
Oct 31, 2008	Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature. KTHXBAI. (Update)	We don’t see it in our Gmail settings (yet), but Webmonkey reports that Gmail Labs has added a very useful opt-in feature for sending text / SMS messages to mobile phones using the built-in Chat functionality. Update: the Labs team found a ...
Oct 9, 2008	YouTube Taking Feature Advice From XKCD	While any open online forum has its share of trolls and poorly written comments, YouTube is infamous for having a quality level below pretty much everywhere else. The (absolutely worth reading) online comic strip, xkcd ran a strip recently ...
Oct 3, 2008	Friday Apple links: Steve Jobs still not dead edition	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Image from Gizmodo It has been a while since we've done one of these. Rest assured that, like Steve Jobs, the Friday Apple Link...
Sep 27, 2008	Stop Complaining about Apple and the App Store	This week there have been several stories on the blogsphere (here, here, and here, for example) which consist of developers complaining that Apple has rejected an iPhone application that they submitted to be part of the App Store in iTunes,...
Sep 23, 2008	One more iPhone app rejected for duplicate functionality	In an ongoing string of rejections by Apple's iPhone App Store, Angelo DiNardi's MailWranger is the latest application to get turned down, for much the same reason that Alex Sokirynsky's Podcaster was rebuffed about a week ago. Apple offici...
Sep 16, 2008	Apple's Podcaster Block Backlash Getting Louder	Apple is getting an awful lot of attention for blocking a podcasting app from the iPhone App Store because it competes with iTunes, and the more details come out, the worse it looks for Apple. In the original post on it, I had wondered, as ...
Sep 11, 2008	Ars at DjangoCon: Day two round-up	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Mark Ramm of TurboGears The second day of DjangoCon spent more of the morning in panel sessions after a keynote by TurboGears' ...
Sep 8, 2008	Ars at DjangoCon: Day one round-up	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit After a great morning talk by Guido van Rossum's inspiration from and application of Django's role in Google App Engine, the cr...
Aug 8, 2008	Roundup: MySpace virtual currencies, the Russian invasion, and more	Here’s the latest action: MySpace apps also making money from virtual currencies — We’ve covered how some Facebook application developers are making seven figures through virtual goods and currencies. Offerpal, a company that offers adverti...
Jul 23, 2008	More on the state of the mobile web	Webmonkey has posted a nice pro/con list of the ever-evolving mobile Web experience. While we all agree using the Web on mobile phones (from the iPhone to the Instinct) has come a long way, its still not good enough to chuck the laptop. So ...
Jul 16, 2008	Autonomo.us group hopes to free data locked in web services	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The topics of information ownership and privacy are at the forefront of the web services discussion. We've been uploading all o...
May 19, 2008	Wikis Are Now Serious Business	Only a handful of years ago, it was common to hear people laugh at Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it! How could you take it seriously? These days, just as blogs are, wikis are on their way to winning a reputation as serious publishing platforms...
	Poderia o Firefox ultrapassar o número de usuários do Internet Explorer em um ano?	O Webmonkey fez um gráfico bacana, com as estatísticas de uso do Internet Explorer e do Firefox desde Maio de 2006. O gráfico mostra que o Firefox vem ganhando espaço pouco a pouco, enquanto que maior rival segue exatamente o caminho contrá...

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Parsers VC has collected 45 articles mentioning WebMonkey, among them “Firefox 23 Launches With Built-in Share Button, New Security Features On Desktop, Updated “Awesome Screen” On Mobile” (Aug 6, 2013) and “CloudFlare’s Mirage 2.0 Speeds Up Mobile Sites By Using Virtualized Images And Minimizing Requests” (Jun 13, 2013).

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Yes, WebMonkey is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 29, 2022.