Web Week

Throwing mud: While World Cup soccer fever runs high in the non-rugby-obsessed world, have a laugh at the outrageous Ugly Footballers site that fingers the less beautiful among the soccer players and uncovers the uglier side of the sport.

Pretty or pretty useless?: A new search engine goes against the simple Google look and is so flashy, it's a tad confusing. Results on Kartoo are presented graphically, in the form of a map representing the sites that match your query and their relationship to one another.

Keep your kids safe online with Cyberkidz: Local group Ecpat (campaigning against child porn and prostitution) goes online with advice to keep primary school children safe on the net. The Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, launched the site on Friday.

Worth the four-year wait?: The long-awaited open source web browser called Mozilla is finally released and free to download. While seasoned web users and developers will rush to try it, it may be too complicated for the rest of us to bother.

Ugly Footballers

Kartoo

Cyberkidz

Mozilla