April 19, 2008
Mibbit
Excellently-done IRC client-in-your-browser, getting around the usual firewall issues if you’re on a corporate LAN.
June 28, 2007
March 5, 2007
skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
Ugly frontpage, but potentialy very useful quick-and-dirty online whiteboard app.
November 2, 2006
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)
October 10, 2006
Qloud
Some kind of weird audioscrobbler-type thing, that allows you to deal with Tags inside iTunes. Or something. Their site is incomprehensibly flashy and slidey and swoopy and I only got five hours sleep last night.
October 9, 2006
youngpup.net - Say Hello to Halfnote
Rather spiffy browser-based TODO.TXT from Aaron “Greasemonkey” Boodman. Minimal, secure, distributed, and AJAXtastic.
July 11, 2006
RoundCube Webmail Project
Attractive, and fairly lightweight, self-hostable webmail client. Works with any IMAP server.
April 12, 2006
AjaxTerm
Jeepers, this is a cool hack. VT100-emulator running in Javascript over AJAX to allow you to remote-control a server over HTTP.
February 15, 2006
Simple group chat for business: Campfire
37signals’s new site — an AJAXy chat tool. No installation necessary, more usable than IRC, and less susceptible to shonky firewalls than instant messaging, but I’m not sure I’m comfortable with 37signals hosting transcripts of business conversations & files.
January 25, 2006
The 3 Hour Tour is Now Available! : FeedLounge
Finally had a chance to play with FeedLounge. It’s a very nice interface, that’s for sure — I’d recommend this over Bloglines to new RSS users. I’m probably going to stick with self-hosted Gregarius for now, though, since it’s free and free.
November 8, 2005
October 31, 2005
blummy - The bookmarklet management bookmarklet
Rather intriguing — An attractive UI for bookmarklets.
October 15, 2005
Placeopedia.com - Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations
This? Is wicked cool. Using Google Maps to present an easy interface for the geocoding of Wikipedia articles.
October 7, 2005
Google Reader
Google’s long-rumoured RSS-reader launched. Tagging, keyboard navigation, and server-based? If they can up the responsiveness of the server, Bloglines may well be fucked.