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Great tips from Robert Nyman on improving your website performance for a better rating in YSlow.

A few weeks ago I forgot to post this link to Erick Schonfeld’s post on Ray Ozzie’s strategy memo - Microsoft’s future is not in creating stand alone software anymore but will be in the direction of collaborative applications. Software is Dead, Long Live the Web. Which makes me wonder why so many software people I meet still don’t get the desktop / web convergence thing. Of course that’s the direction we’re moving and its great to see Ozzie pick up the baton, too.

Khoi Vinh has a rave about RSS Readers being similar to junk drawers. I agree, we do need this software to provide us with better tools than folders. Subscribing to RSS Theory. I might mention I’m like Khoi, my email inbox is it - no folders.

Imran Ali is discussing data portability in his article on Web Worker Daily - Data Portability and the File System - and the importance of users having ownership over content. It links to Flickfs, an application that allows Linux users to mount their Flickr account as a virtual file system. This gives them the ability to drag and drop between their desktop and their Flickr account.

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.

The ten weirdest computer architectures from quantum to 8 ball computers on New Scientist Tech.

Clay Shirky interview on the Colbert Report explaining social networking on the Internet and promoting his new book (I must get hold of a copy - on my wishlist) Here Comes Everybody. (via Boing Boing)

Pixel Qi drives beyond the XO to the $75 laptop in 2009 - 10.