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• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
  Difference with a traditional wiki: you see other editor's changes in realtime, so you effectively work together on the same document without overwriting other person's changes. Typically to be used together with a voice and Im connection.
• So open it hurts
  Long biographic piece on Chris Messina and Tara Hunt in San Francisco magazine, exploring how open people can be about their private lives, and on the difficulties they inflict upon themselves when personal relationships turn sour. Chris Messina: “I think information should be open and free and available,” he says, “but not everyone should let all information about their relationships be public all the time. Some things should be private.”
• Nice Search (Wordpress plugin)
  really simple plugin that redirects your WordPress searches (?s=search-term) to the pretty-looking URI version: /search/search-term, and also converts spaces (%20) to plus symbols
• Rewriting Twitter for web best practices
  Niall Kennedy took up the task of rewriting Twitter frontend on Google App engine, using Twitter's api and probably some screenscraping. Reads as a checklist for localisation, usability, seo and caching. Not sure whether Twitter will like a copy of its site with advertisements though.
• Social Patterns (Wiki)
  companion wiki to the "Designing social interfaces" book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media: "We decided to share the patterns as we write the patterns and the book to get community feedback. We think that hearing a variety of opinions about these topics will make the material stronger and more representative of what's happening in social interfaces. As we complete sections of the book, we will be adding the patterns. "
• La Quadrature du Net
  French privacy and digital rights group
• [Dutch] Moet elke blogger 25 euro betalen?
  "Het reactieformulier zoals dit op duizenden sites te vinden is, lijkt de grootste dooddoener voor de wet. Zo'n formulier valt onder het elektronisch verzamelen en verwerken van gegevens; zelfs wanneer iemand dit vrijwillig invult. Ook een script waarmee het aantal bezoekers wordt geteld valt hieronder, zodra de IP-adressen zichtbaar zijn voor de beheerder."
• Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective
  As usual from Dare Obasanjo: a clearly written analysis. "Windows Azure is currently a Platform as a Service offering, not a utility computing offering" To me, it seems like the "Azure" moniker is as all-encompassing as the .Net moniker almost 10 years ago... It does look impressive though.
• RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
  Janrain's hosted (OpenID) authentication service, "handles the UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data". Should take the headache out of delegated authentication - just wondering about possible lock-in. Technical summary: - Adding RPX to your website doesn't require any changes to your database, and its only requirements are the ability for your servers to make outbound HTTPS calls and to parse JSON or XML. - When configuring the sign-in interface, you supply a token_url parameter to where the user will be redirected once they have finished the OpenID authentication process. A token parameter is passed to the token_url, which you must extract and pass into the auth_info API call. - RPX normalizes profile data from our sources into a standardized format (Facebook, Hcard, Sreg...) - you get the userdata using the token and the back-channel API calls you will make to the RPX servers
• Tutorial: Create RSS Feeds for your Website
  Google has (apparently) integrated the bookmarking/tagging functionality into Google reader... This gives you the possibility to integrate and mix stuff you share from within Google Reader with external pages (that are not part of an RSS feed)