Question: Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

I’ll just leave this link here and let you guys figure out why such a thing could be true (or not!) in the comments.

Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it.

The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test.

The result? Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and Safari users were slightly above average.

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Google and Facebook Trade Targets

Given the success of The Social Network, there’s surely a follow-up to be made that involves other major tech companies. If that happens, this week will be the scene where two very different characters trade positions… “with hilarious consequences.”

Facebook has launched a website dedicated to helping businesses make the most use of its network. And at the same time, Google is preparing to launch social gaming on Google+.

While the Facebook move doesn’t actually change the services it has on offer, the company is trying to make it easier to understand how to use the site to promote a business, explaining the difference between profiles and pages, and between “friending” and “liking”.

There’s also a clearer explanation of a feature I wasn’t all that familiar with before named Sponsored Stories. It’s a mix of traditional advertising and viral marketing: companies pay to appear a set number of times in a special column on the right-hand side of the page, but rather than this appearance being a marketing message, it’s instead a listing of a specific interaction the user’s friend has carried out with the company such as liking a page or using an application. The “ad” only appears for user’s who’d normally see the interaction listed in their news feed anyway, so it should be simple to opt out.

Meanwhile Google is reported to be working on games within Google+ which, as with those on Facebook, will be heavily based around co-operating or competing with fellow members. (There won’t be any Farmville though: developers Zynga look to have signed an exclusive deal with Facebook.)

To try to win business with game developers, Google is offering a couple of benefits. Firstly, it will host and run the games on its own servers, cutting the costs to developers. Secondly, it will reportedly undercut the 30 percent share that Facebook is believed to take from game revenues.

So I guess a lot of people will be creating a new circle marked “Annoying People Who Flood My Feed With Game Crap.”

Geek Web Shows: Beyond The Guild

By Josie Campbell for Clicker.

When you say the words “geek web show” most people will immediately name “The Guild”- but they aren’t the only geek-culture series tearing up the internets. It’s never been a better time to fall in love with a geeky web show, starting with:

The Guild


Of course this list starts with “The Guild.” THE web series that put geek web series on the map; pull up episode one and start watching! Right now!

Gold


In the vein of sports underdog movies, “Gold” followers geeky Richard as he tries to whip together a top-notch RPG group in time to compete in the World Goblins & Gold Role Playing Game Championship (D&D anyone?).

Riese


A steampunk-fantasy-drama about a young girl and her wolf trying to piece together her broken memories while on the run from a dangerous religious cult.

JourneyQuest


From the makers of “Dorkness Rising” JourneyQuest is a comedy web series about a band of dysfunctional adventures that spend most of their time running away from adventure.

There Will Be Brawl


A parody of the Super Smash Bros. video game, this web series gives the Mario characters a dramatic twist as gritty fighters waging war against corruption and evil in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Legend of Neil


What happens when a regular Joe gets transported to Hyrule and mistaken for Link from The Legend of Zelda? This webseries!

Dragon Age: Redemption


The newest Felicia Day web series, it’s based on the EA/BioWare video game of the same name and sees Day as an elf assassin tracking down a rogue mage within the medieval fantasy world of the game.

The Crew


“The Office” meets “Star Trek “in “The Crew,” a comedy series that follows the zany, incompetent crew of the spaceship U.S. Azureas.

Hurtling Through Space at An Alarming Rate


Two goofball roommates wake up one day to find their apartment is hurtling through space at an alarming rate. This comedy web series follows their adventures as they move through space.

Lumina


A dark fantasy-thriller set in Hong Kong about a young woman who discovers a handsome man in her mirror. Turns out he’s from another world, the Dark Realm- but the price for glimpsing his world may be higher than she is willing to pay!

A Good Knight’s Quest


A comedy series that follows gamer Dorian and his friend Gabriel as they accidentally get sucked into a video game. Now they have to save the beautiful princess Adrianna and her entire video-game kingdom.