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.

plugin:bliki [DokuWiki]

My plugin for DokuWiki that allows you to quickly and easily create a simple blog using the wiki engine as the backend.

T-Mobile HotSpot Locations

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

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.

Tango Desktop Project

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.

NeoOffice Home

MS Office alternative for Mac. Based on OpenOffice, but “Apple-ized”.

The Unofficial Fedora FAQ

Pretty detailed set of FAQs for Fedora.

First Round Capital

Venture firm with CA office. Interested in related things.

gotomobile | The mobile usability and user experience blog

Blog about mobile technology, usability etc

Feld Thoughts

Brad Feld, VC. Specifically interested in RSS and related tech. NewsGator is one of his big investments.

http://www.softtechvc.com/

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 2, May 7, 2007

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).

MailBucket

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

Meshly

IM-based digg+del.icio.us bookmarking/voting system.

The Hit Forge

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.

ddclient – DynDNS Perl Client

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.

Netvibes UWA Specification

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.

Ask the VC

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.”

Found+READ

New blog in the GigaOM network about starting up a company/entrepreneurship etc.

RSSBus

“RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions”

Bungee Labs

“on-demand service environment for efficiently developing and instantly deploying next generation web applications”

Coghead

“A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere!”

Dapper: The Data Mapper

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.

RSS Autodiscovery

From the RSS Advisory Board – official documents on how to implement auto-discovery

Uni-Form

Generic form layout package allowing the application of a single class to change overall form layout.

FeedShow online news reader

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-aws – Google Code

PHP code for dealing with Amazon Web Services!

Flash Crop Admin Tool

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)

RightScale

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

spinn3r: Blogosphere Index

A web service search index of the entire blogosphere

WP OpenAds WordPress Plugin

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.

Flip4Mac Drive-in

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.

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Amazon EC2 Client in PHP

EC2 Client written in PHP