Looks as if exSite are not the only ones who hire monkeys as developers!

 

Commentary on Gay Mitchell's presidential website, this time from Pat Leahy in the Sunday Business Post... 

 

exSite.ie's sister company and eBrand epolitics.ie is very proud to have launched it's most high profile site to date - www.gaymitchell2011.ie - the presidential campaign website for Gay Mitchell MEP. Check it out!

Come January 2012 it will be possible for anyone to apply for custom suffixes for domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.

Prepare yourselves for the likes of "thinkdifferent.apple" and "thatcallsfora.carlsberg"!

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Google is to phase out support for older versions of web browsers. People still using older versions of IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari need to update their web browser by August 1st, 2011.

Google cited that improvements were needed in order to fully utilise the potential of the latest technologies, such as HTML5 , as the main reason for the switch. In addition, they have been at pains to explain "that the new browsers are more than just a modern convenience, they are a necessity for what the future holds."(-Venkat Panchapakesan, vice president of engineering at Google).

We fully support this decision by Google, as a website design company we are constantly trying to improve our offering and unfortunaletly potential clients/existing customers are not able to properly view our work while using dated versions of browsers.

The social networking giant Facebook has admitted it hired a PR firm to plant stories critical of its rival Google.

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