I am trying something new. A periodic web round up of stories about the web. Here’s the first installment.

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  Users, Web developers vent over IE7 - IE7 is definitely better than IE6. I hope MS keeps developing it and releasing patches and new version often. More browsers from MS might be a problem though. Because browser adoption rate is slow, this would lead to many more versions of MS. The development environment could become increasing complex.
• Google apps get faster on iPhone - I am continually impressed with Google. They scare me, but I am impressed.
• Facebook’s Zuckerberg: ‘We simply did a bad job’ handling Beacon - Is Facebook the new Corvair? Instead of safety devices, we need privacy devices.
• ISPs intercept and modify web pages - Won’t copyright holders be upset that their content is being modified. This is a bad idea by the ISPs. I smell a lawsuit coming.
• Preview of HTML5 on A List Apart - I am not sure what I think of HTML5. It seems okay, but it also seems like tag soup. I also assume its adoption rate will be slow because, from what I can tell, it will break backwards compatibility with existing browsers

That’s it for now. I’ll keep writing roundups as time and stories become available.