Window System Design:
If I had it to do over again in 2002.
James Gosling
December 9, 2002

Max Design - A webstandards checklist

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: The Word "Open"
Jonathan Schwartz: "There's been a lot of discussion of "open systems," "open source," and "open standards," over the past - well, 30 years - and I'd like to add some refinements to the current debate. Granted, I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of my time defining things, but it seems like a lot of industry rhetoric right now depends upon redefining history and vocabulary."

graphicPUSH: Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print
The complete guide to capturing, tweaking and optimizing screenshots for print delivery.

XML.com: Amazon's Web Services and XSLT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide two ways to get XML versions of the information that Amazon's customers ordinarily get from HTML web pages: a SOAP interface and a REST interface. It's nice to see the pains that Amazon takes to make it clear that, when it says "web services" it doesn't just mean SOAP-based web services, but REST too. According to Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, 80% of the developers using AWS prefer the REST interface.

Creative Commons
Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.

Speculation: ReichOS (Ftrain.com)
If the Axis had won World War II, what would have become of the Internet, of personal computing? Computers were on the way; they would definitely have arrived, and the Reich bureaucracy would have loved the digital efficiency with which der Rechner could calculate ballistic trajectories and process lists of shipments, or of names.

August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com)
It's hard to believe Google - which is now the world's largest single online marketplace - came on the scene only a little more than 8 years ago, back in the days when Amazon and Ebay reigned supreme. So how did Google become the world's single largest marketplace?

Homepage of the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG)
The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) investigates tools and techniques to mitigate the effects of spam. The focus of the ASRG is on technology solutions, although it may consider tools and techniques to aid the implementation of legal and other non-technical anti-spam measures. It also provides input for standardization efforts within the IETF. For more information, please read the ASRG charter.