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SSL certificates are important for establishing an encrypted connection between a client and a server. Only clients that accept a signed SSL certificate will be able to establish an encrypted connection with the server. Encrypted connections are used by webmasters to build secure websites, like e-commerce websites, where extra protection is necessary to prevent eavesdropping.

A SSL certificate is issued by a certification authority, or certificate authority (CA). There are a few types of certification authorities:

Cuil.com rips off Identi.ca's favicon.

In all aspects of today's life, image is the most crucial attribute for survival. We rely on visual cues from our environment to guide our actions. Familiar symbols get imprinted in our subconscious and become a important factor in decision making.

We get bombarded with more and more images everyday. New discoveries and technologies are creating even more ways for displaying images.

http://mashable.com/2008/03/12/ebooks-web-design/

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The Acid3 Test, in development since April 2007, has been released today.
It features 100 tests that primarily focus on DOM and JavaScript.
Acid3 was written by Ian Hickson, with contributions made by browser vendors and other webmasters.

Link: http://acid3.acidtests.org

On 23 January 2008, ICANN unanimously votes to abandon the US$ 0.25 exemption during the five day grace period, thus killing the practice of domain tasting.

Link: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm

The first public W3C Working Draft for HTML 5 was released today, 22 January 2008.
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/

With a clean design and skillful use of AJAX, Mibbit.com presents itself as a viable option for all the IRC users who only have access to a browser. Now you are able to connect to any IRC network even if you are behind a firewall, because the connections are made through the Mibbit.com client's IP. This is good news as not many internet services offer this particular feature for free.