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• The EveryBlock source code
  Both the presentation layer as the scraping part... "EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a "microlocal" level — by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."
• [Dutch] De techniek achter de Open Stack
  Goed geschreven samenvatting hoe OpenID, XRDS, Oauth, en apis als PortableContacts en OpenSocial samenwerken om gedistribueerd social networking ecosysteem te bouwen.
• tweetbe.at
  Treat Twitter #hashtags like an IRC channel. Project by Alex Bosworth See http://tweetbe.at/#cot and http://tweetbe.at/#hackdeoverheid as examples Uses Twitter Oauth to post.
• Stack Overflow
  Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's developer community site.
• ActiveState Code
  Code snippet sharing site. Apparently Activestate is popular in the Python community...
• WordPress › Blog » Themes are GPL, too
  Matt Mullenweg on the question whether Wordpress themes are a derivative work (thus GPL) php+html mix is derivative, thus GPLed, css + images are not. Drupal has a similar point of view: http://drupal.org/node/272652 and so has Joomla, http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3510&Itemid=74 (although they say that javascript is data too)
• How Open Data even makes Garbage collection sexier, easier and cheaper | eaves.ca
  "Garbage reminder app: * Simply punch in your address and find out your garbage zone (no more guessing if you live on the border of a zone) * Get an email or SMS notification 15 minutes, 1 hour, 12 hours (whenever!) before pick up * Download the garbage schedule into your calendar using XML, HTML or ICAL" We actually had exactly the same idea at Amsterdam barcamp/govcamp last month, and extended the idea with crowdsourcing the screenscraping job for every Dutch municipality/city. See http://www.lifesized.net/2009/06/16/hackdeoverheid-a-geeks-meet-government-event-held-in-amsterdam-june-2009/ and http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/06/hack_the_govern.html and my own writeup in Dutch: http://weblog.vanhecke.info/hackdeoverheid/
• Discovering OpenPGP Keys Over HTTP
  Why not publish your public key via autodiscovery? This proposal describes three ways to do it
• Unblockable, Anonymous, Encrypted Mobile Internet Access - ChallengePost
  Twine's Nova Spivack donates 10.000 dollar to anyone who can port Tor to mobile devices.
• [Firefox extension] Backend Software Information
  Detects the backend software of the current website (Drupal 5.x, 6.x, Wordpress 2.x, Django, phpBB, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, Joomla, Reddit, ...).