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The Opera Web Standards Curriculum in association with YDN has just been updated with another batch of great tutorials on website development. The new sections cover Accessibility with an article from yours truly on accessibility basics and another by Yahoo! s Ben Hawkes Lewis on accessibility testing. The section on CSS is also available with an introduction to CSS from YDN s Christian Heilmann. Other industry stalwarts, such as Tommy Olsson, follow on the CSS section with more detailed...

by Mike Krumboltz There s an old saying: If it ain t broke, don t fix it. But in the competitive world of video games, such clich s don t apply. Game companies that stay the course become road kill. Nintendo must know this. The company has elected to rethink its hugely popular DS by adding some surprising new features.According to multiple sources, including Digital Trends, the Big N is redesigning the portable game machine with music playback and a camera. This is pretty huge, and, if...

by Claudine Zap What s generating Buzz in Search today? We look at some of the top movers that caught our attention. MI6 6,535 . The real life version of James Bond s spy agency is looking for the next 007 on of all the not top secret places Facebook. Amazing Race 13 2,987 . The new season of the competitive reality show with a race around the world teams up duos with a shared past. The Lone Ranger 2,337 . Rumor has it that Disney s take on the classic TV show will star...

In case you were looking for a little light reading on a Monday, our own architect Peter Mika has just published an article in the latest print issue of Nodalities. Peter s article, titled Anatomy of a SearchMonkey, dives into the architecture and thinking behind the SearchMonkey project, and how SearchMonkey applies to semantic data on the Web. The entire magazine is available as a free PDF download 5 MB , so take a look and let us know what you think! Evan GoerYahoo! SearchMonkey Team...

Today, we re pleased to announce the AdWords API Local Database Sync project. The scripts that make up the project can be used to schedule reports using the AdWords API, store the results in a local database using SQLite , and then run queries against the database. If you recall, one of the recommendations listed on our recent list of AdWords API: Top Ten Practices extolled the virtues of maintaining your AdWords account information in a local database, and using the AdWords API to keep...

Welcome to part 3 of the series of posts that will give tips and tricks on how to deal with SOAP issues. As a SOAP based web service, AdWords API can be easy to make calls to. At the same time, it can sometimes be difficult to debug the SOAP faults. In our previous episodes, we discussed how an invalid developer token or a missing SOAP header can lead to SOAP faults. Today we cover missing operations and methods. Operation Doesn t Exist nbsp; Developers may also come across the...

Greetings, I m Russ McRee of Microsoft s Online Services Security amp; Compliance Incident Management team. My team serves as incident handlers for the various types of attacks our online services face. High on the list of incidents we handle are cross site scripting attacks. nbsp; There s an unfortunate misconception surrounding cross site scripting XSS attacks that result in them being perceived as less impactful than other types of attacks, and often more theoretical than...

by Claudine Zap It was a weekend of sad good byes, comic relief and even a breakthrough. Here, our scoop of what buzzed this weekend to help jump start your week. Good bye, ol blue eyesPaul Newman, who died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 83, was remembered for more than his presence on the silver screen and his piercing gaze. News of his death caused a sentimental 22,000 surge in searches for information on the movie star. Beyond his screen career, Newman s legacy includes...

by Mike Krumboltz Last night s debate provided viewers the chance to see the two presidential candidates talk turkey on a variety of issues. It also gave voters the opportunity to see if Senators Obama and McCain knew the difference between fact and fiction. A slew of sources within the Buzz examine whether what each candidate said was actually, well, true.Associated PressThe AP offers in depth analysis on statements from each candidate. Their findings are that surprise! both Obama and...

The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago in summer 1999, in fact when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage to signify that they were out of the office at Burning Man. Nothing against stick figures, but our logo designs have become rather more varied since then. Today you ll see a special design that commemorates our 10th birthday. We ve incorporated a little bit of history by using the original Google logo from 1998. And since everyone keeps asking what we d like for...