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Today google has launched a new tool for the webmasters that allows Webmasters to create custom 404 pages. To get the widget, log-in to your Google Webmaster Tools and pick Tools -> “Enhance 404 pages” from the navigation. Now copy the code snippet you’ll get into your 404 template.

Sitepoint has an article that looks at the trade off between simplicity and features . The article looks at a paper which argues that the suggestion that a greater number of features equals lower usability and that fewer features equals greater usability is a false assumption that needs to be challenged.

As many of you have expressed in your comments and emails, there seems to be an issue with installing widgets using the Blogger Widget API (widget installers). From what I have read in various forums all widget installers are affected by this, including even the Feedburner widget to add an email form or blog list to a Blogger blog.

What it does Six Apart, the well-known blogging company, brings us Blogs.com. Through the site, you’ll be able to come across the web’s most popular blogs, making it easier for you to be knowledgeable about the web’s best bloggers. You’ll find everything from celebrity blogs to unknown basement-dwellers who are making a splash on the internet’s bloggsphere.

Out with EDGAR, in with IDEA; SEC’s new system on August 19th, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - EDGAR, the computer database for filing documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is giving way to a new system that aims to let investors more easily analyze corporate reports and other financial information.

In their own words “MyTestBox.comSM is a technology website focused on web software reviews and news from this industry. Our objective is to present reviews of web software written by users (common users, advanced developers).” Why it might be a killer Everyone is on the lookout for the next piece of software that’ll hit it big.

Barnes & Noble’s online CEO resigns on August 19th, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc , the largest U.S. specialty bookseller, said on Tuesday the chief executive of its online business resigned.

Carlyle chairman to retire, no successor named on August 19th, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group said on Tuesday its chairman Louis Gerstner will retire and become a senior adviser to the company’s buyout funds. Carlyle said in a statement a successor had not been named.

There is good, if rather long, piece on ReadWriteWeb this morning about the future of the desktop. This topic is of wide ranging significance, particularly for anyone with an interest in cloud computing, desktop apps and the browser.

Gigya reached over 150 million unique widget viewers worldwide in June 2008, a 23 percent increase in unique viewer reach since March 2008. comScore reports that a total of 615 million people, representing 65 percent of the worldwide Internet users, viewed or engaged with a widget in June 2008.