Quoted: Photosleeve uses both Flash and Silverlight for its web-based uploader, treating them more as complementary Javascript libraries than competing app platforms. This post introduces the idea, walks through our reasoning, and explains a bit about how we did the integration.

Quoted: Union Square Ventures focuses on services that use the Web to change a market rather than simply make it more efficient.

Quoted: Pixel Perfect Firebug Extension

Ok designers, this one is for you... Now you can test the skills of your web developers and see how close they can keep the integrity of your designs.

Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML.

Quoted: Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Quoted: There is no official standard for what makes something “Web 2.0”, but there certainly are a few tell-tale signs. These new sites usually feature modern web technologies like Ajax and often have something to do with building online communities. But even more characteristic among these brands is their appearance. Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue, orange, and what we jokingly call the Official Color of Web 2.0: lime green.

Recommended premium services for a bunch of services. A few are surprising to me (worthless service -- why would anybody pay for it?)

Quoted: We typically make an effort in our lists to bring you free services, but sometimes the ones that do require you to pay are so insanely cheap, it seems silly not to do the upgrade and get the extra benefits. We’ve gathered up 16 from the “If you’re using them, go for the upgrade” column. In most cases, you’ll be happy you spent a couple of measly bucks for a decent upgrade.

Quoted: The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

Refaving from Mike and Zach. Very nice!

Quoted: In the hours after Brad Coulter’s minivan plunged off the collapsing I-35 bridge in Minnesota last summer, family members scrambled to spread the word. Phone calls were impossible; individual e-mails were overwhelming.

They turned instead to CaringBridge.org, a nonprofit patient Web site service recommended by local hospitals. Details were sketchy, but this much was clear: Brad and his family, including his wife, Paula, and teenage daughters, Brandi and Brianna, had been on the bridge as it fell into the Mississippi River.

Nearly 200,000 patient Web pages have been created since large providers and private hospitals began offering services to help people cope with serious illness and injury.