WWdN: In Exile: ficlets is going to the land of wind and ghosts. here's how to save your stories.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/01/ficlets-is-goin.html
"AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising that you try "copying the text and pasting it into a plain text or Word document." Right. That's going to be really fun and easy for people who have written dozens of Ficlets. [::facepalm::]"
Main Page - Archiveteam
http://www.archiveteam.org/Main_Page
"This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides the team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, we also provide lists of software that will assist you in backing up data you control from sites where you currently have no such control. "
ASCII by Jason Scott / Team Archive is GO
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1664
It Died
http://itdied.com
"A compendium of what services and companies are no longer available for our Internet pleasure and use."
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html
"In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove of personalization data sitting inside your visitor's browser history for deep personalization experiences."
ongoing · The Intimate Internet
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/04/Intimate-Internet
"The Next Big Thing? · Two fearless predictions: it’ll be about a new way to connect to people, and it won’t show up first on either Techmeme or TechCrunch."
Tips for Web 3.0
http://dannyayers.com/docs/web3.0-tips
"Whether or not it's possible to list Best Practices in this space, I think it most definitely is possible to identify ways in which developers of such systems can maximise their impact on release. Whatever the particular business model or target audience
whump.com | More Like This WebLog ? BSG Corners: A theory
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2007/02/23/bsg-corners-a-theory
"I have a theory, one of the production designers for the new Battlestar Galactica opened a shipment from Amazon, looked at the cardboard backing of their shrink-wrapped order, and went, “hum, I could do something with that.”"