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It takes money to keep the web open and accessible. This week the Internet Society, a nonprofit group dedicated to the open Internet ecosystem, announced that it was donating US$ 1 million to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global organization responsible for Web standards and accessibility.

The latest issue of Wired magazine sports a cover article proclaiming the death on the Web as we know it -- but is it just evolution, and not the app artillery that is changing the landscape?

The fourth "Future of the Internet" survey is now available from the PEW Internet and American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. In this latest survey we find that Google will not make us stupid. In fact, our reading, writing and knowledge sharing capabilities will be improved. But that's only the beginning.

It's Friday. You're taking a break from whatever it is that you should be doing. You maintain that your browse through the aisles of CMSWire are work-related and not frivolous internet surfing.

As web designers, information architects, usability experts, we spend lots of time surfing the Internet looking for ideas. Be them online shopping or social networking sites, we chock it up as market research and bosses be damned, we're working!

Who would have guessed that we were right?

.NET developer Kentico has announced details of the new version of it’s Web CMS product which hits the shelves in mid-March. Dedicated as ever to the Microsoft stack, the Czech company’s new offering assures support for Windows Server 2008 and the soon to be released SQL Server 2008.

In addition, Kentico 3.1 will also support Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7.0. Compatibility with Server 2000/2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005 is preserved in the new release.