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Tim O’Reilly – Freebase Will Prove Addictive: „But once you understand a bit about what metaweb is doing, you realize just how remarkable it is. Metaweb has slurped in the contents of several of the web’s freely accessible databases, including much of wikipedia, and song tracks from musicbrainz. It then turns its users loose on…

Jason Fried – Preview 3: Highrise welcome and workspace tabs: „The blank slate is the first screen someone sees when they log into a web-app for the first time. It’s what they see when there isn’t any data. It’s the critical first impression. We pay a lot of attention to the blank slate states. I…

„The Mindquarry Collaboration Server is a set of well proven professional collaboration tools made easy to be usable for everyone. […] Mindquarry supports teamwork. Mindquarry allows you to share files, exchange ideas and definitions, manage tasks for yourself and your team, and organize talk via e-mail, instant messenger or real-world meetings.“

„Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.“

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<span class=“comment“>Patrick Hunlock – </span><a href=“http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Bookmarklets_–_The_Evil_Lurking_In_Your_Browser“ title=“Bookmarklets — The Evil Lurking In Your Browser“>Bookmarklets – The Evil Lurking In Your Browser</a>: „Bookmarklets are incredibly useful tools. They can put your favorite sites at your fingertips as easy as dragging the icon in the location bar to your bookmark bar — you can also drag RSS…

Joel Spolsky – Seven steps to remarkable customer service: „We treat each tech support call like the NTSB treats airliner crashes. Every time a plane crashes, they send out investigators, figure out what happened, and then figure out a new policy to prevent that particular problem from ever happening again. It’s worked so well for…

Alan Dean – HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST): „An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.“

Bob DuCharme – Introducing RDFa: „For a long time now, RDF has shown great promise as a flexible format for storing, aggregating, and using metadata. Maybe for too long—its most well-known syntax, RDF/XML, is messy enough to have scared many people away from RDF. The W3C is developing a new, simpler syntax called RDFa (originally…