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Links: 9-30-2006

Slide 8 of 20 (App After App)
Quotes: “..deploy to desktop” and “…Apple is letting you call OS-level functionality direct from Ruby, APIs like IM presence, todo lists, the filesystem and so on?”
(categories: apple osx rails ruby )
(U) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (UNCLASSIFIED)
aka “why you should be using Atom rather than RSS”… brought to you by the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group.
(categories: atom rss syndication )
for in Intrigue » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Douglas Crockford discusses using JavaScript and prototype properties…. also check out the comment re: !== and !=. Who knew?
(categories: javascript prototype programming )
vagueware.com?Innovation in Software
Another attempt at explaining tags for people who don’t know what they are…
(categories: categories-suck tags tagging ontology categories taxonomy )
visualcomplexity.com | NodeBox
NodeBox is a Mac OS X open-source application for creating 2D visual output (static or animated) using Python programming language.
(categories: visualization infoviz information python programming nodebox )
RSS 2.0 Specification
RSS spec.
(categories: specification spec rss rss2 xml )
The Atom Syndication Format
Atom specification.
(categories: atom standards xml spec specification syndication )
The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
Otherwise known as how to use Last-Modified and etag headers.
(categories: atom rss blogging blogs system programming http java )

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Blogger’s Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp
Quote: “…Screw all the XML minilanguages (XUL, XBL, X*L). Screw the RDF. You need to be able to do everything in JavaScript. JSON is just good enough and parseable enough and language-interoperable enough to replace all of them…”
(categories: json javascript browser programming web ajax )
Flickr Services
Flickr supports JSON now…
(categories: json api flickr javascript )

Higher-Order JavaScript
A JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher-Order Perl
(categories: javascript books toread programming reference )

Stu Downes » Folksonomy in the enterprise
Supposedly “…as the number of people who tag increases above 50 you quickly cease producing unique tags.” Interesting.
(categories: tagging tags enterprise content folksonomy )
ISGM Music: The Concert Podcast
Boston museum makes concert series performances available for free via podcast. They encourage sharing. Awesome.
(categories: music podcasts podcast classical free mp3 art )

RollerWiki: Proposal Atlas
Roller proposal to improve the front-page of roller to support the needs of a community of communities.
(categories: community blogging roller planet communities blogs )
RollerWiki: Roller_3.0_WhatsNew
Roller 3.0 released with some spiffy new features.
(categories: blogging roller templating urlsupport )
Blogs and Community ? launching a new paradigm for online community? at The Knowledge Tree
From the article: “… looks at some of the emerging patterns of blog based communities and raises some questions for their strategic application.”
(categories: community onlinecommunities communities blogging blogs for:barrytallis for:billjive research )
Ruby: Rite
The next version of Ruby as per Matz’s slides at RubyConf 2003. via joecheng.wordpress.com
(categories: ruby rite ruby2.0 nextgen )

Macintosh Home Automation and Control Server
OS X home automation: turn on your lights via email. Now if only someone would develop something that will wash the dishes and put them in the dishwasher using email…. that I’d buy.
(categories: homeautomation x10 mac osx insteon remotecontrol home )
Flickr: The Info Graphics Pool
Infoviz pool on flickr. via plasticbag.org
(categories: infoviz information graphing flickr visualization )