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XoXo-outliner
Les Orchard continues working on his XoXo-outliner project, a browser based outliner that uses the opml community server for storage. There remain some puzzles to be solved…

A Simple CSS Image preloading technique
Good things tend to be so simple.

JavaScript: Rotating Cube Animation Effect
Very cool!

Google Calendar task list feature?
Garett Rogers took a look at the javascript under the hood (bonnet..) of google and found some functions for showing debugging info and some code that suggest that tasks (todo list) will be added in the future.

tags: xoxo opml css javascript google calendar

The Eirepreneur posts about google calendar sharing the author’s emailaddress in the gdata-feed…

tags: google calendar spam

I’ve been playing arround with google calendar today and must say i like it very much. Although, one thing is missing, the one thing that makes gmail so powerfull: Labels (or tags).
By adding more calendars you can of course make a distinction between your private, you work and other events but it’s not possible (i think) to add an event to more then one categories, like you can add more then one label to an email. I think that tagging or labeling would make google calendar a more powerfull product.

tags: tag label google calendar

The GestureBank 100 is feeding the Pool as of 10:13 this morning.
Beta will be open soon, the attention economy is on its way…

tags: gesturebank attention

Rainbows

Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX

How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes

Google Data Api’s
Google created a ‘new’ (syndication) format: Rss + Atom and some more = Gdata
Google calendar can be fully controled by this api, so we can expect synchronization plugins for all kinds of desktop calendar apps in the near future! (lightning?)

Interesting Google Calendars
Interesting calendars you can add to your own, like the formula 1 season or movie releases.

Google cheatsheet
This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.

tags: Rainbow Google calendar google map gdata ajax

Aaron Mentele blogs about dynamic opml, like readinglists and how this concept is talked about a lot in the geekosphere but not yet implemented in most mainstream aggregators. Too bad, because the idea is brilliant and simple at the same time!

I’ve tried several aggregators but keep coming back to bloglines. The user interface is not the most attractive in the world but somehow it just works fine for me. It also feels very robust and reliable, so maybe bloglines could give it that push. Grazr is also a candidate, that with some work and some added memory could be a great candidate for evangelizing reading lists.

Talking about opml, rocketboom has put a nice video online, an interview with Dave Winer (in widescreen) on a bench in central park Tompkins Square Park NYC. Hear those birds sing and see the fresh green leaves on the trees, and the beautiful white tulips. I love springtime!

tags: opml readinglist bloglines grazr winer

I just downloaded the thunderbird extension ‘lightning’ which adds a nice calendar to thunderbird and makes it compete even better with outlook. It’s only version 0.1 so extra functionalities need to be implemented but the basic calendar functions are there.
Since both google calendar and lightning (there is also a standalone version of lightning called sunbird) use ical as the import/export protocol, automatic syncing would make this a perfect combination!

tags: thunderbird lightning google calendar

GMail Drive 1.0.10
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.

Microsoft Readies Storage Service to Rival Google’s ‘Gdrive’
The MSN team is working on a new Windows Live service, code-named Live Drive, that will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data.

How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?
Good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity.

Google recipes
Search in Main ingredient, Cuisine

AOL To Launch “Myspace Killer”
AOL may be preparing to launch a Myspace-type social network called “Head On” sometime in the next few weeks.

tags: Gmail Online storage Gdrive Live drive crap google Recipes Aol Myspace

Silver weather
Beautifull picture, nature beats photoshop!

Creepy fruit and vegitables
Great pictures, photoshop beats nature

The conversations network
Doug Kaye (IT-Conversations) builds a new network on top of the IT Conversations model and adds a grassroots service that accepts and publishes recordings of any event, anywhere in the world, on any topic (expected 2nd half 2006).

FreeNetProject
Freenet is a decentralised “peer-to-peer” system designed to allow the anonymous sharing of information on the Internet. After many months of work, the first alpha version of Freenet 0.7 is ready for testing.

Attention from Gator?
Claria’s (PersonalWeb) likely to make a lot of people uneasy when they realize how much of their personal life is exposed through their Web surfing,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group.

tags: photoshop nature conversations nature p2p nature attention