eBay's Developer site - using Plone for connecting with its development community (though the community codebase is collabnet-powered instead)

GreaseMonkey developer-friendly script to allow testing in local files - an issue that can make developing AJAX applications a pain: when testing your pages, you need to host them in the same domain as your services.

OSXGuide.com is a community-driven, interactive forum for learning about MacOS X. We offer regular doses of how-to's, tutorials, and other information-packed articles we called "OSXGuides." In addition, we offer uniquely informative software and hardware

(it's free, it hosts your photos, its got RSS, AJAX, and lots of other goodies) - and scoble has just switched to it for OPML export :o) DABU is still beta software, but you're welcome to make a site, customize it, and upload your photos.

Now we get it. We’ve created a directory, in OPML format, of every TechCrunch company profile. Dave has put the TechCrunch directory up on Scripting News. The directory updates on Scripting News automatically as we update the OPML file. All of our conte

HTML view of the directory, in OPML format, of every TechCrunch company profile. Inlcudes link to download the OPML for offline use ( eg in OmniOutliner )

I think it's extremely simple: community sites are aggregations of people who are interested in what each other has to say. Actually achieving a community site is anything but simple

ARCast is an Architecture Podcast that my team has developed. The premiere episode focuses on the future of WS* and interoperability. Participants include Chris Haddad, Roger Sessions, Jeff Schlimmer, Dare Obasanjo and Michele Leroux Bustamante.

be great if it delivered podcast RSS [ "Slawesome is a really… awesome service that actually lets you record your voice without the need of software and send it to someone so they can hear you for free. You are given the spotlight for two minutes as you

I set out in 1988 to make an outliner that was also a programming language and object database. Now, in 2005, all the power of this idea is available in a download that's about the size of a 15 minute podcast.

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media s

Yahoo! Site Explorer APIs provide access to information about your site from the Yahoo! Site Explorer service. These APIs help you better understand your traffic and usage -- querying for the pages in the Yahoo! index and the sites linking into a site. Th

[see also the API docs] Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

a lightweight computer data interchange format. JSON has the advantage, over XML, as a data interchange format in that it can be trivially parsed, by JavaScript, with JavaScript's built in eval() procedure. (This is important because of JavaScript's ubiqu

Due to the apparent x^2 / exponential dependence of JavaScript / JSON processing time on the number of records in IE (see Fig. 2) it is no wonder that as we move to more records the JSON total average processing time increases in the same manner. Therefor

I’ll be explaining to a bunch of journalists and other attendees what they most need to know about weblogs, feeds, wikis, and podcasts – just the basics. I’ll focus mainly on the “so what” of it all.

[with links] I first profiled a Web 2.0 office in early September and since then more web-based office products have surfaced. Peter Rip posted recently that he's now "bumped into an alpha or beta Web-incarnation for every Microsoft desktop product". He s

does not seem to index many feeds yet - email urls for their consideration ... AJAXian lookahead search results

With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do

pretty smart - not only rehosts, but only delivers changes to clients, not complete feeds

BlogPulse is a window into the blogosphere…open it daily to discover the people, issues, blogs, posts, commentaries, tidbits and news that bloggers are discussing

Here’s an explanation of podcasting, and some links to some good environmental podcasts, for the people attending my Saturday workshop at the SEJ conference

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people

[make sure to try the 'other color pickers' linked below main interface] "This is either something that designers and photo editors have been waiting their whole lives for, or one of those "I've created this because the Web lets me do it" kinds of things.

Some examples and demo implementations of the Google APIs are available below. This site introduces Google Web APIs (Google APIs) as an instrument and playground for webometric analyses.

clean, comprehensive, one printable web-page, covers 57 to 05

valuable source of reports on internet usage & trends in US, eg 'Teens and Technology', 'Health Information Online', 'Spam and Phishing'

SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. SynchroEdit is an open source project -- we are making available our source code and creating an open protocol, not a proprietary service.

my hypothesis about the cognitive process that kicks into place when we tag an item, and how this differs than the process of categorizing. In doing so, my hope is to explain the increasing popularity of tagging, and offer some ideas regarding the design

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle = [solve a specific problem, start as simple as possible,design for humans first, machines second, reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards,modularity / embeddability, enable and encourage decentralized and distributed de

We've been making a lot of updates and tweaks to our backend, as described at the beginning of the month. Most of these changes have been around speed and performance, and I hope that you've noticed the difference. We've also been listening to a lot of yo

Tantek’s been at the Web Essentials Conference in Sydney; audio from his talks: The Elements of Meaningful XHTML, Microformats: Evolving the Web.

(alternative to the Web2.0 conference :o) We will meet to discuss line breaks, spacer gifs, and the ability to launch links in a new browser window

...will build an e-learning 'international gateway' and 'international interface' for e-learning in Australia and the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) in particular. It will strategically position the Australian vocational educ

The answer, Fletcher believes, can be found in the Bloglines APIs, which enable Bloglines to act as a feed cache as a way to insulate content providers from having to deal with high bandwidth consumption. "The individual publisher wanting to put out an RS

By using NetNewsWire’s Bloglines subscriptions feature, you can have the best of both worlds: the ability to read feeds from multiple computers while also being able to use NetNewsWire and get all the benefits of a desktop aggregator.

He's working with FeedDemon, Blogbot, and NNWire to support a new open standard that reduces RSS bandwidth demands. More here and here. Release in extended entry. Way to go, Mark!

very popular, free social aggregator: subscirbe, share, search, publish