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Web Worker Daily are playing with Google Web Apps in Beta and have a short revue.

Rob Crowther has posted an introductory level article on Planning a Semantic Website that first outlines the issues and technologies and goes on to show some specific examples that will enable your existing website to become a part of the Semantic Web.

TechCrunch has a post titled Our Experience Building and Launching an App on Google App Engine where they take you through the process. Nice starter introduction to bookmark if you’re looking at Google App Engine.

By the way, Google’s response to criticism of HuddleChat - a pretty close and very free clone of 37 Signal’s Campfire - was an interesting Google App Engine story. 

Researcher Johnny Lee’s five minute presentation at the TED Ideas Worth Spreading Conference on Wii Remote Hacks is awesome. Using a standard Wii controller and a home made infrared pen worth $5 he creates a white board. Its also a mutitouch interactive white board system! Total cost $50 in hardware. Then Johhny shows head tracking which costs $10 on top of your original Wii.

Robert Nyman has an interesting conversation running about JavaScript loop performance. Basically, as he points out, its far more efficient to create a variable and test on that in your loops rather than making a recalculation every iteration.

The on AIR Tour Europe 2008 is an 11 day train tour through Europe where you can learn how to bring web applications to the desktip with Adobe AIR. This is a way cool way to market Adobe AIR, by the way.

If you’ve been checking out Google App Engine you might get some inspiration from their application gallery.

Google App Engine has launched and offers a full stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. TechCrunch have a strong heads up on this one.