The end of the year (and decade!) finds Judy and Anna Belle sitting down with Patty Jenkins for a fascinating and in-depth talk about Tree Climbers International and its Joomla site at www.treeclimbing.com, where Patty is the (self-described) Business Manager, Webmaster and all around General Manager. How does that work? Well, for starters, you find a great development company to work with, which is what Patty did -- using the skills and talent offered by 3 by 400 in Dahlonega, GA (www.3by400.com) to learn, grown and extend a site that's not only a source of information but a thriving international community of tree climbers. Patty shares a client's view of what makes a great design company and she shares an insider's view of how a tech newbie becomes a happy and productive Joomla user.

And there's more — AB tells us all about the Pink Glove Dance video, Google real time search and Facebook's CEO has egg on his Facebook. Or something. Plus later, AB decries Chrome for Mac in her Beet Up and Judy gives 2 thumbs up (Beet) to www.vark.com.

And now, the links:

Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings!
http://trueslant.com/KashmirHill/2009/12/10/either-mark-zuckerberg-got-a...

Either Mark Zuckerberg got a whole lot less private or Facebook’s CEO doesn’t understand the company’s new privacy settings.

Mozilla and Google Privacy

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10413473-56.html
Mozilla worker touts Bing over Google, citing privacy

http://searchengineland.com/will-bing-finally-be-admitted-into-the-firef...
Mozilla Folks Attack Google On Privacy; Will Bing Finally Be Admitted Into The Firefox Club?

Google Real Time Search

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_real-time_search_is_now_live...
Google Real-Time Search Is Now Live

http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/how-fast-does-google-real-ti...
How fast does Google Real Time Search index Twitter? A quick Test.

Viral Video in Support of Breast Cancer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
Pink Glove Dance

What's Hot in Tech News?

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?topic=t
Google Blog Search: Technology [Click on the green "all # blogs" link at the bottom of individual listings to see the graph of story coverage]

WebBeet looks at website rebuilds from the Site Shack POV, gives a thumbs down to Drupal docs and kvetches about Acquia customer service while EMMA gets a real big thumbs up. Tech news spun by Anna Belle plus lots more including Droids and Dolly. And the mobile web is still now.

WebBeet gets *back* underway with a whole bunch of fresh and edgy OffBeat news (who knew Tennesse had a Women in Tech org?) and Judy and Anna Belle talk about site rebuilds - when you need them, how you build them and where do you take them? Another great show!

Summer is waning, vacations are over and we’re back at the mic with Web 2.0 — the Topic du Jour and Judy and Anna Belle are talking all about it. But first . . . what is this thing that gets mentioned so often and is such a part of the Web as We Know It? Judy draws on Wikipedia’s definition to get started . . . a broadly defined description of Web 2.0 lists “hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies” – but what does it do and why do we care? And what are the 15 most popular Web 2.0 websites, anyway?

Design guru Gill Murrey shares the mic in this week’s WebBeet, explaining how creative inspiration can be found in the unlikeliest of places, what exactly a Drupal themer does in a large web development environment and where she buys the organic cotton clothes that she prefers for a day at the computer (hint: it’s not the local mall).

In OffBeat News, Anna Belle raves about HTML 5 but shifts gears to lament, again, the absence of women’s participation (well, beyond a thimbleful) in the open source community. And Judy ponders the meaning of all those abandoned blogs, likening them to snapshots of our digital civilization – perhaps even so many virtual pottery shards, littering the landscape in anticipation of the anthropologist’s brush to determine their meaning and significance.

So grab your hats and click on board for WebBeet 8. And check out

HTML5 and The Future of the Web

Technically Women, new blog, including this article: "The Still Present Gender Gap"

Video/Slides from Women in Open Source talk at Open Web Vancouver 09

Coder Girl

Bing Tweets,

WebBeet on Delicious for more show links.

Greetings, WebBeet listeners, friends, fans and anyone just wandering past . . .

Anna Belle and Judy have been on summer hiatus in recent weeks, but will be returning the week of July 20th with a new WebBeet podcast. So keep the dial turned to www.webbeet.com and stay tuned,

Judy