Don't Click It -- clickless user interface

I saw this a while back, but it seems to be coming around again. It's an interesting experiment in navigating information w/o clicking your mouse.

Web Developer's Handbook

It's like a double espresso shot of web developer goodness. Concentrated and good to boot!

Amazing new Yahoo Maps API Demo

One of the things that struck me about going to the TechCrunch BBQ a while back was that Google Maps were getting integrated into lots of sites. I thought to myself, a maps api that was pretty awesome is truely the "killer app" right now. Its ironic that there's this sort of sharing going on. Companies like Google and Yahoo create awesome apis which in turn get used by startups. The startups grow popular and get absorbed by the companies that created the apis. It's like "web company tryouts". If you can use the apis, it's almost like a "group resume". Anyway, having a killer api for maps is what has me very excited right now. Go try out this demo/mashup of various Yahoo API's plus the new Yahoo Maps api.

Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
Y - A - H
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A -(a - a) - P - I

A JavaScript Library for Macromedia's Flash™ Platform

From the site:

AFLAX (Wikipedia Entry) is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash features, but without ever touching the Flash IDE.

PXN8.com - web based photo editing

Web applications. What does that mean nowadays? It used to mean that you could go to a site which did something similar to a program you might run on your desktop. Marketers have tried to turn "everything" into a web application however. This site stays old-skool and presents to you a great little image editing tool via the web. It even has a "history" and uploading to flickr. Great tool to keep in your quiver.

More Canvas Demos

Overstimulate has some awesome canvas demos - especially the cellular automata. Canvas is probably one of the most potentially disruptive technologies to hit the browser in years. And Canvas + E4X is killer! (got this from Simon's Blog) Here's another demo

DabbleDB

With all the talk of Google Base, this site (heard about it from Mashable) seems to be a freeform database with some spreadsheet capabilities.

New Disney CG Movie: Swiss Family Robinson

Details are sketchy right now, but at least you can see a preview image:

Opera 9 preview for windows

There's a technology preview (translation - alpha release) of the new opera 9. It seems to be going after FireFox in a big way by matching feature for feature in FireFox's upcoming 1.5 release - including the Canvas tag! That can only be good news for us users as competition always tends to bring out the best (and worst) in people. I've even seen Canvas demos that were designed for Firefox work in Opera 9. Nifty. I'll probably never convert from Firefox, but to know that there are other browsers out there that support emerging standards like that makes me very happy.