– 37Signals publish a PDF book (“DIY publishing: There’s a new sheriff in town.” — suggestion to 37Signals: create a product that enables other authors to DIY publish…)
– Kottke on DIY book publishing (37Signals profit margin will probably be much higher than any royalties they would’ve got from a publishing company)
– eBay’s Jason Steinhorn on convergence of browser and desktop (some interesting predictions, including that within 5 years ‘.com’ branding will fade away)
– The IE7 team’s radar screen (Jon Udell is pleased to hear that Microsoft is paying attention to browser compatibility issues now)
– Open AIM (AOL releases open API: “The AIM service is changing into an open and dynamic platform.” — Excellent!)
– Susan Mernit on Open AIM (“Of course, there is one catch–AOL still won’t allow its’ code to be used to link to other IM platforms.”)
– Marc Canter is excited by AIM API (“There are almost 70M AIM users. Think about what you could do with that?)
– Ted Leonsis on Open AIM (“Our goal is to team up with developers to create a completely live and interactive experience across the Web and beyond.”)
– Omnidrive beta and API (“With Omnidrive you can focus on making your product great while we take care of your storage matters.”)
– arstechnica on Google GDrive (“Rumored to be in the works for some time, GDrive would offer users unlimited storage space for just about any kind of document.”)
– Steve Rubel on beyond the blog (“…there is a burgeoning need for tools that help us cement all of the content that we want to track from our favorite galaxies into a unified interface.”)
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)