60 Elegant and Visually Appealling Designs | Smashing Magazine
Some nice designs for inspiration
Getting DokuWiki to use WordPress Authentication (v1.2) [ thedeadone.net ]
Authentication plugin for DokuWiki that uses a WordPress DB’s users etc to log in.
Krumo: Version 2.0 of print_r(); and var_dump();
An enhanced output class for use with PHP. Gives nicer output than basic print_r or something similar.
My plugin for DokuWiki that allows you to quickly and easily create a simple blog using the wiki engine as the backend.

Locations where there should be a T-Mobile HotSpot in California

Even if a seat was empty, there was a yellow banner stuck on every chair in the stadium. So whether it was your shirt or the banner – everything was yellow.
Posted on Flickr 5:01 pm, May 11, 2007
Welcoming the Warriors to the court, bursts of fire and small fireworks!
Posted on Flickr 3:05 pm, May 11, 2007
How to monitor server load on GNU/Linux – Xaprb
This article introduces six methods and 12 tools for monitoring system load, performance and related information on GNU/Linux and similar systems.
The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.
Learn how to slice your templates into fully standards compliant XHTML and CSS!
Good guide for designers etc to check out and learn about the process of converting a design into CSS/XHTML.
MS Office alternative for Mac. Based on OpenOffice, but “Apple-ized”.
Pretty detailed set of FAQs for Fedora.
Venture firm with CA office. Interested in related things.
gotomobile | The mobile usability and user experience blog
Blog about mobile technology, usability etc
Brad Feld, VC. Specifically interested in RSS and related tech. NewsGator is one of his big investments.
Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC. Funding in the software market, with specific interests in social software, Web 2.0 startups and “consumer infrastructure” in that space.
Startup Camp is an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the various members of the startup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where its the attendees that drive the agenda (in true unconference fashion).

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:15 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:14 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:13 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:10 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:10 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:09 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:09 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:08 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 10:08 am, April 29, 2007
Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 8:35 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 8:34 am, April 29, 2007

Viewed in Huntington Park as part of the California Mille
Posted on Flickr 8:33 am, April 29, 2007



Send email to an address and have it publish to an RSS feed.
FeedBlendr.com – A Single River of News – KillerStartups.com
FeedBlendr, profiled on a new site that covers upcoming startups.
Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL – Google Video
Video from Google itself on tuning MySQL for better performance
IM-based digg+del.icio.us bookmarking/voting system.
Interesting-looking incubator organization set up by some well-known tech entrepreneurs.
A MySQL Storage Engine for AWS S3
Could it be real? Some guy is figuring out a way to back MySQL data onto Amazon S3.
Mark Logic Server – The industry’s leading XML content server
XML Content Server with integrated, XML-based operations like XQuery, transforms, etc.
Awesome Perl app which will update dynamic DNS information with DynDNS in an environment where your IP isn’t static (EC2?)
Mike Rowehl – Full Contact Programming
Smart guy with great experience dealing with feeds (Feedster) and mobile (AdMob).
Home // Trynt Heavy Technologies
Pretty slick site with loads of free web service APIs. Can’t figure out what the deal with these guys is though…
GeoFeed | GeoFeed | Geographically Aware Feeds (Atom, RDF and RSS) and Web Services
Interesting site that splices in Geo information to a feed, by reading the contents and finding geographically-relevant references.
FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market
Post on FeedBurner’s site covering a good summary of a lot of their stats right now.
CustomRSS Gadget for Google Desktop
Good starting point for a custom Feedville widget? Very cool, customizable RSS reader foundation with adjustable colors, entry counts, icons etc etc.
Written by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, VCs from Mobius.
Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating apps.
Venture Hacks — An entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital.
“An entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital.”
Startupping – A Community for Internet Entrepreneurs
“Startupping is a one-of-a-kind community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs. It is a place to share information, ask questions, and tap into the experience of others who have built and are building web businesses.”
New blog in the GigaOM network about starting up a company/entrepreneurship etc.
“RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions”
“on-demand service environment for efficiently developing and instantly deploying next generation web applications”
“A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere!”
Website scraping engine, pulls in data and then allows you to “do things with it”
PublicSquare: Painless Publishing
Interesting-looking blogging/CMS platform created by Christina Wodtke. It runs boxesandarrows.com. Also appears that 37Signals consulted on the design – it’s very “BaseCamp” etc.
Particls – News and alerts delivered right on your desktop
Interesting app that claims to rank incoming news/info based on your likely interest and then notify you accordingly.
From the RSS Advisory Board – official documents on how to implement auto-discovery
Generic form layout package allowing the application of a single class to change overall form layout.






An ancient Egyptian temple, relocated to the Met and then reproduced in slightly scaled accuracy.
Posted on Flickr 6:33 am, April 8, 2007


This knife/cleaver has a gun running across it’s spine, and the blade has a timeline/calendar of some sort etched on it.
Posted on Flickr 6:15 am, April 8, 2007







Don’t know what was going on, but at least 20 police cars came rushing down Madison Ave.
Posted on Flickr 8:05 am, April 6, 2007

An online news reader that offers to split Google AdSense revenue with feed publishers
Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com
Interesting take on project management. Basically a souped-up spreadsheet with users, date selection, powerful reporting etc. Apparently uses EC2 and S3 to power it.
OpenFount – Distributed, local filesystem
Interesting tools based on Amazon Web Services. Especially the distributed, multi-access local filesystem using FUSE, backed into S3.
PHP code for dealing with Amazon Web Services!
Perfect for creating custom avatars for a website based on a URL or upload. Select the part you want and crop away.
Top Mashup Services… an almost complete list… : Businesshackers…
Reasonably complete list of feed mashup services (a la FeedBlendr)
Amazon Web Services has created an exciting platform for deploying web applications based on Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service. If you are considering using EC2 and S3, AWS-Console will make your life easy.
WeoCEO – Easy to Use. EC2 Love.
Amazon EC2 load balancer which automatically requests and kills new instances based on load.
Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats – franticindustries.
Ranked by number of feed subscribers through FeedBurner
A web service search index of the entire blogosphere
Plugin for WordPress to allow integration of OpenAds advertising into feeds etc.
Odiogo – text-to-speech for podcasts
Automatically syndicate a feed and supplement it with audio of the read-out version of a post.
Upload files using flash and javascript – SWFUpload
A small javascript/flash library to get the best of both worlds – The great upload capabilitys of flash and the accessibility and ease of html/css
Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud?
During 2006, tag clouds moved beyond their well-known role as navigation mechanisms and indicators of activity within social media experiences, emerging as a standard visualization technique for texts and textual data in general.
Awesome program that allows you to store complete DVDs on your harddrive and then play them like normal. Takes menus, special features etc along with it.


