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Using Ajax. Peeking at the algorithms would be interesting.

Neat little timer thingy. Would make a great open source clone project.

The interaction model demonstrated for “Iscrybe”:http://www.iscrybe.com looks really amazing. The scripting and ajax events happen so fast, it looks more like a client-based rather than browser-based application. They can easily put a CRM spin to their dog and pony show and become instant acquisition targets as soon as they release. Whether or not that is [...]

I finally had a chance to use the recently updated Google Reader, which I recall I “completely pasted”:http://sotto.org/2005/10/08/i_preferred_the_first_version_when_it_was_called_gmail/ the last time I posted about it. Well, after a year of tweaking their interface, I think the GR Team has completely hit the ball out of the park with the changes they’ve made.
One of my [...]

An open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.

A beta tester “writing”:http://www.maluke.com/blog/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2 about Amazon’s “Elastic Computing Cloud”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011, which is a fully programmatic virtual computing environment:
The main point of course is that it can be set up and torn down programmaticaly. It works like this: you upload a system image (Amazon Machine Image or AMI) and then make a call to boot it, you [...]

Making your code friendly, at least to comment pages

How to get a standalone MediaWiki up and running on a USB flashdrive.

“ma.gnolia”:http://ma.gnolia.com: a feature mashup of social bookmarking, tags, “orkut”:http://www.orkut.com groups, “spurl”:http://spurl.net page archiving and pretty design = crazy “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us. No Opera bookmarklet love unfortunately.

??Clint Checketts?? has kindly “updated”:http://www.checkettsweb.com/tw/gtd_tiddlywiki.htm ??Nathan Bower??’s GTDTiddlyWiki to the 2.0 branch of ??Jeremy Ruston??’s “TiddlyWiki”:http://www.tiddlywiki.com. This means you can now use all those ass-whooping plugins at “TiddlyForge”:http://www.tiddlyforge.net although I’ve personally been using ??Simon Baird??’s “MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki”:http://simonbaird.com/mptw/ to get my GTD on. As for all the name dropping, these guys deserve kudos bars for all of [...]

For people who’ve been in the software/web biz a longish time, “Zeldman’s diatribe”:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0 about the moniker regurgitation cycle resonates, but only so long as it sounds like you’re spreading wisdom and not just being a jackass. My favorite spot-the-fsck-on money quote:
But ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly [...]

Wow, the new “Google RSS Reader”:http://reader.google.com _really sucks_. How do I know this? Because I’m currently using the best RSS reader out there now, and it’s something that Google themselves had already developed before they released this lame version into the wild.
After trying every rss reader under the sun, I’d finally settled on [...]