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Digg is a news site where the news items (stories) are submitted and reviewed by users. Not an editor but the users decide which stories go to the frontpage. "Power to the people!" so to say Well the people from the digg community that is. Every "story" is submitted and voted on by the digg community.

User who find an item they like or "digg" submit the story by providing the webaddress (URL) a short title and a description. The story is stored in a holding bin until enough other users vote in its favor. Once that point is reached the story moves to the frontpage or a subsection.

Are people using it? Well here are some numbers; about 800k unique daily visitors, resulting in 9 million plus page views a day and growing.

Digg is "socialWare", its from people for people. You can choose to participate and "digg" some stories or just browse through it. One thing is for sure you stumble upon links to unique stories not easily found in another way.

At Lifehacker I came across this prototype of a new virtual desktop called BumpTop. It's a prototype, it's new but it looks so familiar and it "feels" natural. It brings piling and all of it's related features to your computer desktop.

Jesse James Garrett, the man behind the famous essay on AJAX, wrote an article Spinning the Web for DIGIT.

In this article he explains that the AJAX ripple and the Web 2.0 wave it created is not something that is driven by technology only. The technology was around but it's the understanding what the technology can do for us that causes the real spin.

He also mentiones one of my favorite online companies 37signals (the company behind BaseCamp, CampFire, BackPack etc etc). One of their remarkable marketing slogans "Our products do less than the competition.", how much more Zen can you get  
One other remarkable quote "Being small doesn’t mean we can’t have a big impact”.

A lot of people are saying that Web 2.0 is just a new marketing hype based on old technology. I still believe in the Web 2.0 wave but I see it more as a change in awareness. That is also the conclusion of the article "Web 2.0 is changing the way people think about the Internet".

Just a couple of months ago Google bought Writely, an online collaborative word processor. And now Google Labs is working on Google Spreadsheet!

Google Spreadsheet is still in a "Limited Test" state. Meaning you have to sign up and hope you are one of the happy few to try it out.
Already available is a small tour that describes the new features:

With the release of Windows Vista six new TrueType fonts will be released. The fonts have exotic names like Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas (monotype), Constantina and Corbela. These six new fonts are optimized for Clear Type.

One of these fonts -Consolas, a monotype font- is made available for users of Visual Studio 2005 (Download here 4.3MB Note: Visual Studio 2005 is a requirement!).
Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced
font is specified. The installation package sets the default font for Visual Studio to Consolas.