English still dominates Twitter. When exploring Russia as part of a class that I am teaching this summer at Georgetown, one of the barriers we learned about was the difficulty of fitting some Russian language words into just 140 characters. Twitter is, however, extremely English-friendly. As the Sysomos report found, the top four countries on Twitter are all English speaking (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Of these, US makes up 62% of all Twitter users, followed by UK with nearly 8% and Canada and Australia with 5.7% and 2.8% respectively. The largest non-English speaking country on Twitter? Brazil with 2%.

[From: Influential Marketing Blog: 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter]

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Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they're still quite useful in certain situations.

via 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know – Nettuts+.

via Let’s All Get Inline (In a Block, In a Block).

via Making your site social with Google’s FriendConnect.

I will list out the various document and browser modes with the basic differences.

via Strictly Software: Detecting IE 8 Compatibility Settings.

If you’re interested in the grubby details of how Windows Azure works, his paper is a great place to start – in particular I like the way Chappell demystifies the Fabric Controller.

via Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : Windows Azure.

When using these, developers have to carefully consider many subtle techniques to help users get things done. In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on.
jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste gets its due.

[From: 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine]