from beautiful Barcelona (t d f) - check this shop before leaving. Off the web for 4 days. Don’t ask!

• IMified - Instant Productivity
  Using your IM for productivity. Getting better each time. Available widgets are increasing. And you can create your own widgets that means you can create functionality for your IM-client. Recommendation!
  (tags: im productivity)

• How to turn your blog in to an OpenID [provider]
  Quick and simple intro on how to easily make use of the dezentralized nature of OpenID.
  (tags: openid authentication identity)
• Google AJAX Feed API
  “With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.”
  (tags: google ajax rss api)
• OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin
  turn your wordpress blog into your OpenID
  (tags: openid identity plugins wordpress)
• searchCrystal
  It is a search visualization tool for people to compare, remix and share the results of the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news and shopping engines.
  (tags: search visualization)
• Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007
  This paper aims to show how information visualization can be used to gain quick insights into the overlap structure and topical relationships between the monthly most visited Wikipedia pages.

After some time and lots of efforts by the authors and - I dare to claim that - the editors the third BlogTalks book will hit the (virtual) shelves in a month or even faster.

I can tell you all those self-publishing services are time bandits. First it took me two months to figure out that Booksurge (an Amazon company) is supposedly run by inverse mechanical turks.