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.

EC2 Client written in PHP

Article written by Alex Iskold about FeedBlendr

Detailed grid showing which browsers support which selectors and CSS hacks.

Cool hack to make iCal send notification via Growl rather than the nasty internal panel thing/sound/email/whatever.

A site showing tips/tricks (patterns) for driving wiki adoption. Ideas on bringing them into an organization as well as improving/expanding their use when already established.

Interesting Russian style martial art, similar to Krav Maga

A good, plain-english breakdown/discussion of knife laws in California

Good collection of bash scripts for handling all sorts of things automatically.

Awesome web-based love for an Asterisk installation.

Details on how to overcome the widely-known echo problems on the phone handsets we have in the office.

Awesome plugin for WordPress that allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts. You can then embed a dynamic map, Microformat adr and geo output, and adds GeoRSS to the RSS output.

Pepper (plugins) for the Mint WordPress stats system

Grid hosting system: $100 per month. Word around town is that it beats out Media Temple’s “The Grid” massively. No SSH tho…

CSS filtering, cleaning, compacting app

Very detailed breakdown of styling options for all sorts of form elements.

Awesome collection of feeds/news sources compiled into a custom news reader.

Interesting upcoming book from one of the Polar Bear guys.

Detailed information (in a wiki) on the usage of the PHP Sparkline library

AJAX online dictionary. Very simple, very cool – good for comparing words on the same page and getting quick definitions

Cool site for OSX/E61 Love

The outline-structure of your opml-file is represented in a foldertree that can be edited with a click of your mouse. You can easily add, edit and delete nodes and links.

Like FeedIcons, but for OPML

Semantically marked up tag cloud

Authentication model for DokuWiki that backs onto an existing MySQL database for user/pass/group information.

This page breaks down all the special commands that are available in Doxygen. Doesn’t include all the HTML you can use, but covers all the special internal stuff.

PHP class for managing connections/email on an IMAP host. Looks full-featured although I’ve not actually tried using it yet.

Turck MMCache is a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely …

Drop in player for a webpage that allows you to play back a video in Flash. 15 euros for commercial use. Perhaps only works with Flash videos?

PHP class for working with Amazon’s S3 storage engine.

Mobile browser using the Mozilla engine (a la FireFox) for Windows Mobile devices.

Directory of widgets for all sorts of applications etc. Their office is down the street from mine (on Brannan).

Interesting company that provides support and services around helping you provide an API to your service/application.

Very slick implementation of a pure JS/CSS fade in/out image slideshow.

DevShed article on MySQL table types

Article from a book discussing normalization, table types, relationships etc under the MySQL DB engine

Awesome online tool to convert music/doc/video/image files to different formats without download/installing anything. Very cool.

A client-installed program (Windows only) for managing Google AdWords campaigns. Looks pretty slick. Includes some collaboration features.

Complete PHP library for working with the Google AdWords API. Don’t re-invent the wheel.

Awesome hosting system from Media Temple. Looks like it’d scale really well.

Article by Ross Mayfield about a better pricing strategy for Internet Marketing.

Awesome, really flexible calendar plugin/framework for WordPress

Podcast about digital lifestyle and efficiency. Think Lifehacker, from IBM.

AJAX/DHTML based customizable timeline system.

Awesome flash based game. Make a little bob-sledder fly around and build your own track. Totally addictive

Podcasts etc all available for the speakers at this excellent conference.

Small Russian software development house that seems to develop some pretty cool stuff. (Click tracker, SQL syncher, project management tool)

Might not last long, but this is an awesome tool that pulls Amazon cover art for popular albums in my Last.fm account. It makes a cloud. Strip back to the filename URL for details.

How do you know what RSS extensions have been defined already, where they have been defined, and how you can avoid re-inventing what somebody else has created already?

Awesome website/blog froma guy who’s working with the Yahoo UI elements to the extreme.

Awesome bluetooth attachment for iPods allowing phone control, caller ID, dialing, etc etc – pretty hardcore.

Thorough online course for learning Linux

a graphical “network” representation of your visited article pages. A node represents an article, a connection between two nodes means, of course, that you’ve gone from the first article to the second one. You can save the network you’ve …

webERP is an integrated suite of web-based business management software. The software covers accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory management and general accounting requirements.

Blog covering the development of IE7, the changes in it, new features etc

With Wordtracker you’ll know which are the best keywords to drive more traffic to your sites.

List of proxy servers offering anonymous/transparent proxying from locations all around the world

A PHP powered system for fulltext indexing documents for searching etc

a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity …

SimpleFeed is the newest and simplest way for marketing departments to implement, manage and modify customer communications programs – all without needing any IT support.

Official, hyperlinked spec

Airfare comparisons and tracking over time.

Feedwhip can automatically create an RSS feed or send email alerts for (almost) any web page on the internet. Change a Feed Feedwhip lets you customize any RSS feed, from any source, and read it the way you want, in any RSS reader.

Monitor a page and receive an email when it changes.

Learn how to produce and consume RSS and Atom News feeds — which allow you to monitor data changes in your applications — through practial usage of XML and XSLT.

Some XSLs for working with RSS and Atom

Study of outliner-based interfaces (esp on mac os)

These are XSLT stylesheets for transforming an Atom 0.3 document in to a RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 document.

Online tool for creating webpage trails and sharing them, plus sharing bookmarks.

An interactive shell for php

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.