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YouTube Tools, a lengthy list of varied utilities.

Google is reportedly preparing ads for audio.

Cahlan at Coding Cowboys wrote of Apollo, and drew info from architect Ethan Malasky.

Animated Knots uses JavaScript JPEGs rather than stronger formats, but that's enough to make an effective presentation of how to tie most any knot.

37 Signals discusses some of the less-obvious difficulties of debugging existing work in the new Microsoft browser.

Dion Almaer picked up on how Apollo promises to extend the capabilities of JavaScript developers as well... thanks for letting more JavaScript experts know what Apollo offers them!

AppFusion of San Diego appears to be first out of the gate: "AppFusion, the leading provider of Rich Internet Applications based Business Intelligence solutions announced today that it plans to provide full support for Apollo, Adobe's upcoming cross-operating system runtime for deploying Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop."

What's good for Loose Change is not good for Wendy's, it appears... seems to be a double-standard, depending on whose side you're on... sort of like how the Walmart story drew more outrage in the blogosphere than the Fenton astroturfing is doing.

Brendan Eich talks about future JavaScript growth. (The browser's back button doesn't work here... look for nav controls at lower-right rollover.) A concise quote: "Browsers actually don't interoperate so well at the frontiers". The first and final sections have the ideas; the center holds details on how JavaScript will change.

Drew McLellan asks whether microformats can be validated... I never got answers on how we'd decide which calendar data format was the approved one, and so on. (Who chooses "the standard", and how?)

Don Park is acerbically humorous with "WPF? WTF!"

Richard MacManus writes of "Web 2.0 Security Scares", but the domain restrictions in invisible calls seem like they'd choke off most of these exploits...?

At Web Standards Project, Ian Lloyd pushes back against overuse of "Ajax" style work in forms.

Molly Holzschlag hosts a discussion on what people suspect IE7 adoption rate will be, and more importantly, what the rate of IE6 disappearance will be.

Marc Canter writes, as only he can: "Anf finally today - here goes Macromedia again trying ot jump start their own ecosystem. Haven't they learned by now? Nobody wants to hang out with slimeballs? Does anybody remember Grand Cenral..." and so on. Here's two dollars my poor man, go freshen up that bottle of Eight Ball and may God bless....

Randall Fish Rand Fishkin provides a long list of searches, to illustrate the range of ways incoming visitors may try to find you. He also uses some rare Google operators (I hadn't known about "num" in the search line), and links to directories to find more sites competing for search terms you're targeting.

Hart Shafer of Adobe has the most authoritative list of Soundbooth reviews.

Michael Mulvey has seen fonts go fuzzy with Adobe Flash Player 9. I've read his description through twice but don't see a handle for research. Anyone know of similar symptoms, know of conditions where this could occur? tx.

Brian Deitte and I had a conversation about ways to enable creators' rights on content, without triggering those programmed by "DRM" label.

Mark Piller advises on how Flex, Apollo, and other new technologies could gain more mindshare more quickly. These types of posts may not receive replies, and are rarely executed as-is, but I can assure you that they are eagerly read by many people within Adobe.

Richard MacManus interviews Chris Beard of Mozilla, and there's a neat vision of the browser's future towards the bottom: "[...] if at some level the browser can move into the background, and it's really the web content that's the most important thing and the ability for you to cleanly interact with your online life [...] it really shouldn't matter whether you're accessing your content from your computer, your phone or your tv - we're going to see consistency in that experience."

WebKit blog has a bit about Apollo using WebKit as the HTML renderer. In comments "chrisb" says he's on the Apollo team and provides some more functional details. (I can't confirm, from the webpage, the poster's identity... as members of a group, we need to reveal identity and testable affiliation when posting, thanks in advance.)

A ten-ounce, wandlike paper scanner, with Acrobat optical character recognition built in... I'd never use one, but still, somehow, I want it. ;-)

I don't know all the issues and politics in the e-book arena, but I see that Jon Noring and Bill McCoy are already discussing Adobe Digital Editions at TeleRead.

Deeje Cooley points to an Analyst Breezo of some of the MAX announcements. I haven't gone through it yet, but it seems to have material of interest.