EEML is a protocol for sharing sensor data between environments; this is a library to allow the Arduino board to relate sensor data to a Processing application

“(pronounced “patch bay”)… a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world.”

A Firefox extension for GUI sketch-prototyping of interactive systems

“In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting. That’s it.” Web-based, so I wonder whether a mobile Adium or something will replace this in 10 days…

Exhaustive list of plugins and resources that will come in handy if you’re building a site in RoR that involves a social network of some form.

Textual change is a constant, and the way blogs are changing our view of news is not new. The textual inconsistencies of book printing and manuscripts have implications for the internet and digital history

“some potentially useful resources that may be of help in choosing a microcontroller for your project, or just getting started with microcontrollers in general.”

Don’t miss the footnote in the Health section.

Models can refer to themselves via a HMT, so that objects can be related to differently by different objects, without duplication

“REST is an architectural style which revolves around The Four Verbs: “Give it here,” “Here you go,” “Put that thing back where it came from or so help me,” and “Flush.”

LiteSpeed is a capable, easy-to-configure server that speaks natively to Ruby on Rails applications. The free version is good enough for small to medium sites, which (let’s face it), I’m likely to be creating.

This is somewhat more obtuse than useful. Don’t skim over the details, and have fun figuring this out.

A windows-only IA/prototyping application

DENIM is a sketch-prototyping software based on a ZUI; you sketch screens and site structure, and link them to each other, zooming in and out for more or less detail. Version 1 had terrible performance, but version 2 is supposed to be better

To build with $nephew

Huge set of links to photos and photosets of paper prototypes of web designs and applications — including Twitter, Flickr Places, and other recognizable designs

Photoset of paper prototype sketches. Wonderful reference

Yet another one of those things that I’ve seen and yet not understood until poking at it: gravatar is a central icon for identities across social networks and blogs.

A pity there’s no official iPhone qrcode reading application, because this is very nice: a tool to create 2d barcode hyperlinks to songs on the iTunes store. Check it out.

Via Rands on twitter. Want.

Olinda, the internet radio appliance concept, shown here in a range of iterative mock-ups and prototypes. Have to love the bamboo plywood concept.

Fascinating on multiple axes: open-source hardware, internet-enabled BBC radio that remembers your habits, with a modular interface that allows plugging new functionality on, like lego.

Like linkedin, but for people who run a business, not people looking for a corporate job. Found via the Ruby on Rails podcast

How to plot a gear in a CAD application, using tangents and curves.

Data Cloud visualization of code commits on open source projects, in HD video

Concept design for digital books, with RFID

An alternative to the stalled iUI framework, a CSS framework for creating iPhone “native” web applications, which also works in Google Android