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Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend:

• Brian Solis: “On Twitter, What Are You Doing Was Always The Wrong Question”
• Technologizer: “Twitter’s Ad-Free Nirvana: Going, Going, Gone?”
• Freelance Folder: “Ten Signs You Need To Refuse That Project”
• GigaOM: “4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS”
• Lifehacker: “How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave”
• jkOnTheRun: “First Look at Google Chrome OS — Extensions, Options and More”

What are you reading this weekend?

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week:

• Mockingbird: Build Web Site Mockups Fast

Thursday looks at Mockingbird, an easy-to-use wireframing tool.

• Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Break Bad Work Habits

Karen explains how to break bad work habits using the power of your mind.

• Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops

Doriano rounds up the options for virtual online desktops.

• 6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project

While many of us are still scratching our heads trying to figure out how to fit Wave into our workflow, Will has tried using it on a real client project — here he shares some tips.

• Seesmic for Windows: An AIR-less Twitter Client

Darrell’s been trying out the new beta of the native Windows-only Seesmic Twitter client — and he’s very impressed.

Last week, Mozilla celebrated Firefox’s fifth birthday. While it may seem hard to believe that it’s really been that long since Firefox first burst onto the browser scene, it’s equally hard to understate just how important it has been for the development of the web. While IE is still the most popular browser, according to Net Applications, the browser market is much healthier than it was five years ago. Several major desktop and mobile browsers are  in active development, notably IE, Firefox, the WebKit-based Apple Safari and Google Chrome, and Opera. The intense competition among these vendors is causing a climate of innovation, and the start of a new browser war.

So what might the future hold for browsers? In my latest Long View over on our subscription research service, GigaOM Pro, “What Does the Future Hold for Browsers?“, with comments from Chris Wilson (Microsoft), Chris Blizzard (Mozilla) and Bruce Lawson (Opera), I look at where this new browser war might lead, and the battlefields that it will be fought on: innovative new technologies, browser performance, security and privacy, and the ability to browse from multiple, diverse devices.

How do you think browsers will change over the next five years?

Adobe has released new betas of AIR 2 and Flash 10.1, James over at jkOnTheRun reports. Both products now support multitouch, but most interesting for me in this news is that AIR 2 promises to be less memory-hungry than the previous version. I’ve shied away from many useful desktop apps that rely on AIR (TweetDeck, for example) because they hog so much memory — hopefully this new release will have much more reasonable usage of my computer’s resources.

Do you avoid AIR apps because they are so resource-hungry?

Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend:

• TechCrunch: “Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week”
• Six Revisions: “Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers”
• Outright: “Is Your Small Business Ready for the Holidays?”
• Freelance Folder: “How Freelance Businesses Can Measure Social Media Results”
• Convince & Convert: “What Do Twitter Lists Say About Your Personal Brand?”
• ReadWriteWeb: “Google Executive Says Companies Can Get Rid of Microsoft Office…Next Year”
• LifeSnips: “100 Ways To Find Ideas For Your Blog Posts”

What are you reading this weekend?

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week:

• 6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project

While many of us are still scratching our heads trying to figure out how to fit Wave into our workflow, Will has tried using it on a real client project — here he shares some tips.

• My First Month With Google Wave: Can’t Even Stand On the Board

Conversely, Darrell has been using Wave for a month and is not exactly enthralled by the experience.

• How to Build a Better Twitter Bio

Meryl shows you how to build a more effective Twitter bio.

• 16 Lessons in Customer Service from a Car Salesman

Amber’s been trying to buy a car — and got some great lessons in customer service as part of the deal.

• Google Dashboard: Find Out What Google Knows About You

Google has just released Google Dashboard, a window onto all of the data it stores about you.