Dishy is a simple JavaScript wrapper for del.icio.us that helps you integrate your bookmarks onto your website. Dishy makes use of JSON and some simple methods and properties to allow you to easily customize the look and feel of your bookmark list.
The Amazon Web Services Developer Connection site has a great tutorial that will show you how to Mount Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2. S3 is Amazon’s distributed storage service and EC2 is their distributed, virtualized server solution. In the past it was difficult to have persistent storage in EC2, but now using S3, persistent storage is possible.
Simon Willison offers a list of Six cool things you can build with OpenID. There sure is a lot of real positive buzz with regards to OpenID. I am really looking forward to being able to use my OpenID account with more and more services. I currently have way to many proprietary accounts and way to many web sites. Having a unified identity that I can use at multiple sites is very appealing.
Badger uses Yahoo! Pipes and JavaScript to create Web badges out of any RSS feed. One of the neat features of Pipes is its ability to sent output in JSON format. This allows you to use Pipes as a proxy for any type of data or mashup you can think of.
The ever cleaver Gina Trapani from Lifehacker documents how to Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes. What is your master feed? Well is is an aggregation of your feeds from all your social networking sites like Flickr, del.icio.us, or any other site that provides you with an RSS feed of your activities.
Frantic Industries presents 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes. Some great ideas are in this list that may open you eyes to the power and possibilities of this new service from Yahoo!
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection is starting to gather a great collection of tutorials for using their amazing web services. Building a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3 is one that caught my eye. It is full of short examples that shows virtually every part of the S3 service and how to access it using Rails.
Yahoo! Pipes looks like a product that could change the way web designers and developers consume and user RSS. Pipes are a familiar terminology if you have ever done any Unix command line work. Pipes in Unix-land allow you to route the output of one tool into the input of another tool. The pipe character | is used as a separator between each command. So what makes Yahoo Pipes revolutionary? Well to start it provides a drag-and-drop interface that allows you to connect RSS feeds from multiple sources and perform operations like sorting, counting, and grouping. And it does this without requiring the developer or designer to write a single line of code.
There is some really good discussion and analysis of this new service from the likes of Tim O’Reilly, Jeremy Zawodny, Niall Kennedy, Richard MacManus, and even Google’s Matt Cutts.
The Amazon Web Services Developer Connection has an 18 minute screencast that will show you how to Set up and Run Amazon EC2 from Windows. EC2 is Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud web service. With EC2 you can setup and run your own virtual server for less than $80 per month.
