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• Antipatterns for sale
  Interesting discussion on the sale of a Twitter service (had 800 Twitter usernames and passwords - although afterwards the seller declared those were not included in the sale), the link with recent spamming, phishing attempts via Twitter, and whether OAuth is an adequate solution for all of this.
• Nice Translator - The fast, easy to use online translator
  On-the-fly translation as you type (Translation quality isn't any better than other services of course...)
• OpenID Explained
  (yet another) OpenID evangelisation site. Clear explanation, nice graphics. By a 2-person web shop.
• openid-selector - Google Code
  Javascript OpenID selector. Users select their account by a recognisable logo.
• gonze.com/playtwitter
  Bookmarklet and Greasemonkey userscript that lets you easily play mp3 files directly on Twitter or Jaiku. Transforms the [play http://hyperlink] phrase to an embedded flash player. Based on the del.icio.us Greasemonkey userscript.
• Adeona
  "Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. Addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings: no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop" Uses http://www.opendht.org/ as storage, OpenDHT is a "publicly accessible distributed hash table (DHT) service", started for research purposes.
• 5 iPhone apps to WOW your non-geek family and friends
  What it says. The apps I use most to impress "normal" people with my iPhone.
• Safari+
  Iphone-optimised list of handy bookmarklets for Safari Iphone - "Duplicate page" looks like a very handy one... (see also this list http://www.lifeclever.com/17-powerful-bookmarklets-for-your-iphone/ )
• Adactio: Journal—The password anti-pattern
  On the practice of asking credentials of 3d party services -apparently this blogpost from 2007 was one of the first times this was actually called the username-password antipattern.
• Dial2Do
  Dublin-based speech-to-text service. Call a number, and send yourself a reminder, or send a message (via txt or email) to one of your contacts. Works with local (and at this moment still free) numbers in 19 countries. Also interfaces with other services such as (Google) Calendar, Evernote, Twitter... Jott.com seems to be the American equivalent.