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Written by Bilal Hameed from the Startup Meme blog digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/The_Sidebar_Syndrome'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week we've seen evidence of a new trend in the Web,

Google today announced that it plans to acquire On2, a Clifton Park, NY-based video compression developer in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $106.5 million. In its announcement, Google argues that

Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon,

Despite the number of add-ons available in the Firefox ecosystem, it can still sometimes feel like there are only a few truly good ones out there. That's why when we

With all this talk of the Web as a platform, it's worth taking a closer look at what web apps are using Firefox as their platform. Firefox is regarded as

Shortcuts for commonly performed functions are beautiful things and we just found a great Firefox extension that's going to save us a lot of time. It's called UrlbarExt and it

Last October, Mozilla announced that they were working on a mobile version of the Firefox browser. As it turns out, they were working on two versions: one designed for touchscreen

The Sunlight Foundation, in partnership with Google, Mozilla and Redhat, today announced a nation-wide weekend hackathon dedicated to coding projects that foster government transparency. Scheduled for December 12th and 13th

Search engines are great at retrieving textual information, but even though a lot of search results today are actually videos, most search engines still only display a text link to

Techcrunch is reporting that China-based web browser Maxthon has sold a minority stake to Google, rumored to be around $1 million. More importantly Techcrunch is "also hearing that this investment