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Nginx is tearing up the charts and going big-time $3 million in a series A round. The company, which announced its intent to go commercial in August, is being backed by Michael Dell's MSD Capital, BV Capital, and Runa Capital. It's little wonder that the five-person company was able to land investment, as it currently powers more than 11% of all active sites on the Web.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a wonderful article for newbies and experienced pros alike for the sponsored site Software Quality Connection with the above title. He has lots of great suggestions and the article is well worth a quick read.

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Imagine a world without keyboards. Futurist Ray Kurzweil did 10 years ago when he predicted that by 2009 most portable computers would not have them any longer. Chances are you're still using a mouse and keyboard to point and click your way through this post (and the thousands of other Web pages you view every week). Yet a change is fast approaching, and it's based on touch.

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Whether you refer to the Internet's next stage of evolution as the next Web, UWeb, or Web 3.0 (and more than 800 posts that we can count on ReadWriteWeb alone have been categorized as "Web 3.0"), wondering what's coming next can be fun and instructive. At Aplus.net, we leave the musings to the experts. But perhaps our best contribution to this discussion is to highlight what our customers are asking for -- and adopting. These are the avid Web 2.0 users: the hobbyists with blogs, the non-profits with online communities, the small- and medium-sized businesses with active, growing e-commerce sites.

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Web hosting has never been more affordable -- or more complicated. Rich media, social networking, and sophisticated eCommerce platforms are all making the Internet experience incredibly dynamic, interactive, multi-faceted, and profitable.

When those Apple advertisements tout "there's an app for just about anything," they aren't kidding. The latest example? A new iPhone application which just debuted in Japan's App Store transforms the handheld into a full-blown web server. Called "ServersMan@iPhone", the application allows your iPhone to appear just like any other web server on the internet.