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Links of interest from the 16th Week of 2009

This was a busy week for me and thus I didn’t get out there as much. Nonetheless, I did find a few nuggets.

• OpenID is the hizzy and RPXnow makes it easy
• I’m on board: Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
• Will Smith Beatboxing
• Will It Blend? – Nissan GTR
• Share your pics and vids on twitter
• Experts Say Social Platform is the New Email

Links of interest from the 15th Week of 2009

• Twitter Applications You’ll love and use: TwtApps
• Bring Twitter Right Into Gmail with the Amazing TwitterGadget
• 25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development
• A must have, The Golden Ratio Calculator
• 16 Design Tools for Prototyping and Wireframing
• Look at W3C web site redesign in beta, more info
• IE 6 Fixer
• Into UX, wireframes, the blueprint css design framework, and OmniGraffle then you’ll need these Stencils and Templates

Links of interest from the 14th Week of 2009

• Building a Small Business Site with ExpressionEngine
• CSS Styler – StyleNeat
• I’m going to try and get to Big Omaha
• Freebies for the out-of-work
• File storage and automate backup with Rackspace and Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk
• Google Insights on CSS Frameworks
• Google Insights on JavaScript Frameworks

Links of interest from the 13th Week of 2009

• The Top 50 Blogs for Startups In 2009
• How to earn a living in today economy Square Profit
• Top Twitter Friends
• If you want to waste time, use your brain: Fantastic Contraption
• Copywriting tips from Copy Blogger
• Great line-up of software, MacHeist 3

Links of interest from the 12th Week of 2009

• Elliot Jay Stocks a guy to watch
• Still trying to get to this, only need a couple hundred dollars more Web Visions
• Checking out FourSquare
• Wondering why there hasn’t been a resent Denver BarCamp
• My favorite local coffee shop Sound Grounds
• Pligg an open source Content Management System (CMS)
• Or check out Social Web
• Carrington Theme the CMS Theme Framework for WordPress

Links of interest from the 11th Week of 2009

• Look up a #hashtag definition (or create one)
• Reposted from maxdesign.com.au links: JavaScript best practices
• Fluid Grids
• Making a footer stick to the bottom of a page
• Need a private phone number with voicemail that can be upgraded to a live Receptionist, get evoice
• Learn more about WordPress at WordPress.tv
• A site for fans of bands, MoBoogie
• Card Observer a neat site to check out the designs of business cards
• PixelPipe
• Trying to muster up the cash to attend WebVisions

Links of interest from the 10th Week of 2009

• Internet Business Mastery blog and podcast
• Freelance Switch
• Freelance Switch Hourly Rate Calculator
• A bit older post but still a goodie, Mac Application Launchers
• Need to modify those iPhone Notes, or use your iPhone as a disk, PhoneView
• A friendly CMS for web designers, LightCMS
• Awesome source code management tool, Springloops
• Urban Camouflage

Links of interest from the 8th Week of 2009

• Just came across the 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools posted at Smashing Magazine which immediately caught my attention. It lists all the great tools around PHP which makes it more easier and fun to code.
• Another great list: 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools also from Smashing Magazine
• Deploy* is a simple free, open source, web application that quickly creates a simple front-end web project framework with valid XHTML and CSS, with the feature to include a CSS reset and jQuery.
• Attended WordCamp this week
• What’s hot on Twitter, Twitscoop
• BuddyPress coming soon to all WordPress installs allow each island to become a social network
• BluBrry a "podcast community and directory that enables media creators the power to make money, attain detailed audience measurement and host their audio and video"
• You gotta have your Buzzword Bingo

Links of interest from the 7th Week of 2009

• Introducing Bespin an online web editor found at https://bespin.mozilla.com/ usable in HTML5 supporting browsers only.
• A designers’ test tool for font/type testing
• A quick tutorial on base-font
• Great article: PHP framework comparison [with] benchmarks
• TED Talks: Sylvia Earle: How to protect the oceans (TED Prize Winner!)

Links of interest from the 6th Week of 2009

• All to true! The 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
• Twitter, the Be All, Do All Tool? Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots
• Beautiful, iPhone 4G Concept Is a MacBook In a Phone
• Freestyle Webtop Toolkit – "a way to deploy a user interface…without having to worry about cross-browser compatibility;"
• Hum, seems promising A JavaScript MVC
• 100 Beautiful Free Textures
• A must have for web designers — for creating mock-ups, etc.; Layers