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philikon / python-weave client is even more interesting than the other tool: a Python library for accessing Mozilla Sync. With this, I could build various small tools that automatically mix links into bookmarks or extract them from the sync and move them into other bookmark files. Or how about a cron job that takes links from bookmarks in a special group and automatically posts them to the weblog? All sorts of fun things are possible ...

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 * Exporting using Publish Services. Well, Adobe has Photoshop.com - and just expanded it. And promotes it as a better alternative to Flickr. How serious Adobe is about this can be seen in the Publish Services in Lightroom 3. Facebook, Flickr, and SmugMug are offered out of the box. Even on the Lightroom Exchange, I found nothing about connecting to Photoshop.com. Well done, Adobe. Very convincing.

Instagram now has official APIs. It completely passed me by. Maybe I can eventually get around Tumblr to get my Instagram pictures into the sidebar. On the other hand, Tumblr has been doing quite well lately, and why change something that works (the curse of any further development - good enough).

HowTo: Using Radio2. Well, ok, I understand his motivation. But well - I click on the "Press This" bookmarklet from WordPress and write a sentence - I've customized the bookmarklet form with JavaScript and Custom Post Types (in this case Aside) does the rest. And up top I already have a link blog - and it also has its own feed. And it's also quick, enclosures are also easy to make and tagging works right away. Sorry, Dave, but somehow I already have all of that! Update: I just set up a Twitter account and now I'm pushing new posts there. Let's see what comes of it.

Re: Factor: Google Charts - I really should use Factor more often. Every time I see how practical a visual REPL is (in Factor, graphical representations of objects can be embedded in the normal output, similar to old Lisp machines), it tempts me.

consistency and ecosystem opportunities - Twitter API Announcements is an email where Twitter pretty much leaves all reality behind. Just to remind you: Twitter is this cute service where you can send 140-character messages - and I'm not saying that to make fun of it, it's often quite practical to search there when something is currently happening. But when I then read this bloated nonsense about "prevent diffusion of user experience" and other bullshit bingo in the email, I can only wonder what they're smoking. The real thing behind it is probably rather an attempt to close the platform to control and exploit it more - for example, the uproar about this absurd fat bar in Twitter has probably caused some panic at Twitter. Because if all users leave the official client, no one will look at the bought trends anymore ...

jsFiddle is a very nicely made online editor for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Various JavaScript frameworks are supported, and there is the possibility to save snippets and discuss them with others. Progressing.js is also available, as well as a number of tools to unleash on the code. Quite cool for experiments.

WordPress JSON API. I don't know if I really need this, but it might come in handy someday - the XMLRPC or Atom APIs are quite cumbersome if you just want to quickly access data from the blog via JavaScript.

About Dirigible - for all those who want a spreadsheet in the cloud, but don't want to program with JavaScript like in Google Docs, but with Python. As a self-hosted solution, I would find it really great, especially because of the simple linking of spreadsheets across server boundaries described there.

emscripten - Project Hosting on Google Code. And this is the tool that brought Python to the browser/server. It converts LLVM bitcode to JavaScript and enables a number of interesting tricks.

Instagram api - instagram - GitHub. Unfortunately only unofficial, and Instagram has already asked the first service to stop using the unofficial API. Therefore, the use of the API should be approached with great caution. But it would be interesting (just so I don't have to pick up my current images from Tumblr anymore, because they have not been really stable lately). Because with the API I could simply access my collection page of my image feed created with it.

Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - damn, more and more features that make me think about upgrading to Leopard. This would be nice - I use many web apps and dedicated mini browsers for them would be quite cool. Also, the integration of user scripting and the Dock and Growl integration are interesting.