Dojango, a template Django application that includes full Dojo support baked in, has been released by Tobias Klipstein, Nikolai Onken, and Wolfram Kriesing.

Dojango version 0.3 released
Dojango

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Processing is a data visualization programming language, which John Resig has ported to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.... [demos here]

Obsessing is a "very alpha" service that allows you to edit and build Processing.js applications on the fly. Obsessing is all about bringing the Processing API/experience into the browser.

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According to mir.aculo.us and of course

...thanks to Dion Almaer and Google, you can now use served-off-googles-infrastructure versions of your favourite JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and script.aculo.us.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

most popular JavaScript open source libraries are

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

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[via smashingapps]

The open source version of AtMail provides users with a lightweight, yet powerful webmail client...the future of email is via a web interface...

http://demo.atmail.org
http://atmail.org/

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Microsoft wants to go 2.0 at a time of great turbulence and potential change in the web industry.

Live Mesh is more than two years in the making by Microsoft and is a combination that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices, if their are using windows.

Live Mesh is open to developers (not just .Net/Silverligth). It’s going to be cross-platform and cross-browser...

It will bebased on standard protocols and feeds — HTTP, RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON and FeedSync.... [read more from Mary Jo Foley]

Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Live Mesh Wait List Page

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According to James McGill

Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

» View Inline Demo

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

Google Streetview documentation, reference, demos

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Motionbox is another video storing & sharing service...

The developers of MotionBox have written a custom Prototype.js based library to handle event delegation and they decided to open source their work.

You can get this from SVN or download it directly with you login.

To see it in action, check out their contests and Motionbooks pages.

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check out
Flickr Cover Flow & Flickr Guckn

Both sites essentially do the same thing. They let you view Flickr sets using a Apple Cover Flow-style slideshow player. Guckn is probably the easier site to use. Basically you can take any Flickr photoset and replace "flickr" in the URL with "guckn." If you visit Guckn.com you can also see a slideshow with 100 recently uploaded images. That it's. No bells and whistles...

read on

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