web properties

Much to its credit, Facebook (which may not even qualify as a start-up any longer) has stood firm in the rapid river that is the modern social web and has grown into one of the most powerful web properties online.

Could it be that Facebook has found a unique formula that protects them from obsolescence and makes it irreplaceable?

The issue of "clickfraud" really seemed to die down for a while, but it appears to be back. As you may remember, about five years ago, a bunch of advertisers sued Google over clickfraud.

Google took about a year to work out a settlement and we hadn't heard much about the issue for a while.

ars Technica: "Google is continuing to kill off support for Internet Explorer 6 in its services; the search giant has announced that two more of its Web properties will stop supporting IE6 as of March 1."

Yahoo has been promising us appification - the ability to access a multitude of applications, services and widgets from their web properties - for quite a while now, introducing their Yahoo Mail application platform and a new, app-oriented beta version of their web portal last year.