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The Technorati Microformats Search is the first service i’ve seen that actually uses Microformats.

Vers online op de Nederlandse Techcrunch, BlueAce: Startups zonder bubbels, mijn welgemeende advies voor mensen die erover denken een internet startup te beginnen, developers die (te) vaak de zin en onzin van web 2.0 buzzwords moeten uitleggen, en verder eigenlijk iedereen die geen genoeg kan krijgen van hippe afkortingen.

The fine(est) Javascript toolkit Dojo was just updated to release-0.3.0, clicky the link for the release builds. This release is a great improvement, from mundane bug fixes and general code cleanup to the wild and wacky new options like client side file storage. Watch the Dojo Toolkit homepage for the offical writeup.

Altough most modern web applications have an API, many do not. For the rest we have site scrapers. Thor Muller suggests (follow up here) we open up our scapers with their own scrAPI to get to those now hard to reach sources of nfo into the mashup mix.

BetaNews | OpenDocument Gets ISO Certification

Ismael Ghalimi has compiled a list of web based productivity software with which you could potentially bring your whole office software suite to the web; Office 2.0 Database.

Of this list i actively use DabbleDB (CRM and list manager), Linkedin (contacts) and (as soon as they fix some issues) Blinksale (invoicing) for my own business. And Gmail (webmail), Del.icio.us (bookmarks), Pixoh (photo editing), Flickr (photo sharing) and Wordpress (blogging) personally.

…and Open XML becomes the One True Office Format? O how i love these little prophecies; Cringely - Killer Apps

Sinds enige tijd heeft Plazes een nieuwe en erg verbeterde launcher uitgebracht. Het eerste wat mij opviel was dat deze versie ook werkt door de office firewall van mijn huidige klant maar er is heel veel ander moois te melden. Plazer (de nieuwe naam van de launcher) ondersteunt nu het editen van je locatie binnen het programma zelf. Je kan zoeken naar bepaalde locaties in de buurt; b.v. alle lokaties met gratis wifi binnen een straal van 1 km (handig!) en het programma heeft gewoon een betere vormgeving gekregen.

I am looking at a beta of videobomb and it’s pretty neat. Actually it’s exactly like one of the startup ideas i had; a vote based internet video channel that you can subscribe to with RSS (dump the tv, get itunes!). You know what they say though; it isn’t a good idea if 20 other people haven’t thought of it too. I’m glad that somebody at least found the time to build it and i like that it’s built by the good people of the participatory culture foundation. Can’t blog about any of the details though, sorry.

Apple Introduces iTunes U to make university lectures available to anyone through their music store, combined with earlier rumors (facts?) that Apple will be offering a free service to universities to record and distribute their lectures easily with RSS feeds this looks to be a win-win for all parties involved. Great marketing for Apple great cheap services for educators.