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Gource: Development Visualised

This is really quite beautiful. If you’re involved in open source projects, or if you use software version control for your own projects, gource can turn the developing directory tree into a movie, with each committer tending to the nodes over time. It’s more like watching gardeners planting and pruning than sterile software development.

OpenPhoto

This looks useful – open source photo management.

MagicTouch – GitHub

Library and examples of browser multitouch.

Data Wrangler

DataWrangler (demonstrated at StrataConf just now) is a very useful looking tool for first, extracting data from semi-structured files and (more importantly) secondly creating a script for doing the same extract again on similar data.

Cloud Edits for Google Project Hosting

Previously @jresig tried a Google Chrome laptop (Cr-48) and hihlighed that for hardcore coding it’s not up to snuff. This looks like the first response that begins to make cloud-based contribution to open source projects really very easy.

unhosted.org manifesto

Website as a service. Potentially brilliant.

paper2ebook

A tool to convert formatted scientific papers into dot epub.

kismacng

It’s apps like that that make it more obvious to the lay-person why secure connections are a good thing. Perfect for introductory lectures, but I’ll probably have to pass it through the ethics committee.

P2PU School of Webcraft | Drumbeat

Something interesting from Mozilla Drumbeat – perhaps some funding for research and course development.

Google Wave Developer Blog: Wave open source next steps: “Wave in a Box”

Google announce their intent to opensource most of the rest of Wave to enable third parties to build on top of it. This makes sense. Lots of the underlying collaboration technology is no doubt useful to Googl, and they’ve stated their intent to keep baking it into other products, so supporting third party wave protocol …

Mozilla Developer Network

Mozilla Developer Connection has a new name and a clear mission to be “a comprehensive, usable, and accurate resource for everyone developing for the Open Web.”