Two surprises-

Dave Schappell (Teach Street) authors a "reader blog" at the Seattle PI).

He covered Roy Leban's Puzzazz web site (started at the Google AppEngine Hack-a-thon this summer).

Interesting demo app for the Google Social Graph API

This is a fun 20% project - hosted on AppEngine. It's a Q&A ranking application based on one used internally at Google.

Even cooler would be -> open source it as an AppEngine example.

Google's "CDN" for javascript libraries. Better than copying the library to your own server as your users will likely already have the google version loaded!

google.load("jquery", "1.2.3");
google.load("jqueryui", "1.5.2");
google.load("prototype", "1.6");
google.load("scriptaculous", "1.8.1");
google.load("mootools", "1.11");
google.load("dojo", "1.1.1");

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Quoted: This week I discuss the good news around JavaScript performance, Geolocation and other great Gears 0.4 functionality such as multiple file upload abilities t...

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Quoted: Google Tech TalksOctober 26, 2005ABSTRACTAlex Martelli on the Python Object Model.

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Looks like we should be setting _udn to track transitions between our subdomains and main domain.

Quoted: Google supports the OAuth protocol for authentication of web applications.