It's March

Nearly Spring. Time to get as mad as a hare

February was a fantastic month, here's a quick round up of all the web related news, virals and oddities.

• Google releases a new social network for Gmail users: http://tinyurl.com/ychgf2q – Google Buzz, due to compete with FB and Twitter. It’s had a luke-warm reaction with many people taking issue with Google opting people in without their consent…
  
  
• Ask anonymous questions: http://www.formspring.me/ – I’m not convinced – unless you’re too embarrassed to ask questions?!
  
  
• The web is often made up of an “anonymous lynch mob” that “changes very little”: http://tinyurl.com/y9htvzs – great article.
  
  
• 20 ways to make your website “rubbish”: http://tinyurl.com/kvj63z I don’t agree with all of this and there’s plenty more items… including on this site!
  
  
• A great idea for a Trance remix competition: http://www.fcsystemf.com/ download a remix pack each week and become part of the”line up”.
  
  
• Automatic location updater is a give-away to Burglars: http://tinyurl.com/yzt9bt4
  
  
• Happy birthday to Adobe  Photoshop: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8524832.stm – 20 years old this month – the airbrushed models of the world salute you.
  
  
• The Guardian Leeds blog is well worth a read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds
  
  
• The timeline of the code behind the web: http://tinyurl.com/cetjjp – awesome, geeky and a diagram ever-so heavy on the acronyms…