I think I might have found a bug in W3C’s CSS validator.

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There has been a lot of talk about CSS buttons lately. Very understandable, since there are a lot of web applications being developed today that could benefit from slick looking buttons without loss in accessibility. Before jumping on the train myself, I just want to emphasize that you should not use this technique to replace real form buttons unless you know what you are doing. That said, the script I am providing to this article can create the same stylish buttons out of boring input buttons as well as plain anchors.

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There’s an an incredible market emerging in China. It’s going to be huge. I happened to stumble upon an interesting article that touches the subject “chinese internet behaviour” from a western perspective. Here I summarized four very interesting facts about internet usage in China compared to the west:

• China is the second largest internet market in the world.
• China has about 150 million internet users and the US has about 154 million. That’s about 68% market penetration in the US but only 10% in China (so far).
• The biggest search enine in China, Baidu, has a market share of 62% compared to Google’s 20%.
• The average time on a search results page in North America before a click is less than 10 seconds. In China it’s about 30 seconds on Google and almost a full minute on Baidu.

The next 10 years will be very interesting.

Google just merged two of their existing services that reveals general search habits: Zeitgeist and Trends into a new service called Google Hot Trends.

The art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google Inc., the world’s top Web search company, on Tuesday unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries.

Google Hot Trends combines elements of Zeitgeist and Trends — two existing Google products that give a glimpse into Web search habits, but only in retrospect based on weeks-old data.

Hot Trends, a list of the current top-100 fastest-rising search trends, will be refreshed several times daily, using data from millions of Google Web searches conducted up to an hour before each update, the company said.

Links:

• Reuters news
• Google Hot Trends
• Webmaster World discussion

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