CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. Oh, the CouchDB book by O'Reilly is also available as an online book and even in German. Certainly interesting for one or the other who doesn't feel like wading through English books. The translation is not (yet?) complete, so you will still come across English chapters. But it's a start.
Archive 10. August 2011
Installable Web Apps - Google Code. There you can find some background information on how to convert web applications into installable web applications or hosted apps. This allows you to use Chrome as a runtime for applications that behave very similarly to regular applications - Amazon's online Kindle is a great example. Programming is done in JavaScript, which is much less intimidating than it was a few years ago. As Packaged Apps, you can also do everything that Chrome Extensions can do (and can go beyond the scope of regular web applications).
Privacy Fail: How Facebook Steals Your Friends Phone Numbers | Kurt von Moos.com. Ouch. Facebook sends the iPhone address book to their servers and stores all contacts there when you activate the function "sync profile pictures with address book" - according to the description of the function, the user believes that only the pictures from Facebook are added to the contacts they have locally, but in reality the entire address book is facebookized. Without the user being aware at that moment what is happening.
Kindle Cloud Reader. Nice story - under Chrome it is installed as a Chrome application with offline storage of the books. This is very practical on Linux, because there is no native reader there. And on the iPad it should also work similarly - I have to check that out too (although there is also the normal Kindle Reader there).