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• Adamantix - Aims to be a highly secure but usable Linux distribution. The aim is Common Criteria LSPP AEL5 (comparable to TCSEC B1) or higher. This means that not only will it provide a high level of security, it will also be (relatively) easy to install and use. Based off of Debian.
• Adeos - Provides a flexible environment for sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems, or among multiple instances of a single OS. Enables multiple prioritized domains to exist simultaneously on the same hardware.
• AGNULA - A GNU/Linux Audio distribution. Volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video arena.
• Annodex - Open standards for annotating and indexing networked media. Includes specification documents which are being developed into open standards for the Internet, open source reference software and browsers, media content, and information on how to get involved. Provides a markup language to author the hyperlinks and annotations in a structured way (CMML), an encapsulation format that integrates the markup with the media data (ANNODEX), and an extension to the existing URI specification for deep hyperlinking (temporal URI addressing).
• The Apache Software Foundation - Main site of this top rated internet web server.
• Artima Interviews - Interviews with software luminaries like Anders Hejlsberg, James Gosling, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Bruce Eckel, Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas, Rob Gingell, Guido van Rossum, Scott Meyers, Martin Fowler, Sean Neville, and Bob Scheifler.
• The Beowulf Project - History of Beowulf development, network drivers, software, documentation, papers, and links to other resources and cluster sites.
• Biglumber - key signing coordination - Allows people to expand their web of trust by helping arrange key signings for GnuPG and PGP.
• BitTorrent Linux Mirror - Linux Downloads - The Linux Mirror Project provides mirrors for big distributions such as slackware, mandrake, debian, gentoo, freebsd and knoppix.
• BlueRobot - There's nothing wrong with gray. - Cascading Style Sheet layout stuff
• Bugzilla - Server software designed to help you manage software development with bug tracking. Has query tool that can remember your searches, integrated email capabilities, editable user profiles and comprehensive email preferences, and permissions system.
• Calais - Automatically annotates your content with rich semantic metadata. Using natural language processing and machine learning techniques, the web service looks inside your text and locates the entities (people, places, products, etc), facts (John Doe works for Acme Corp) and events (Jane Doe was appointed as a Board member of Acme Corp) in the text. It then processes the entities, facts and events extracted from the text and returns them to the caller in RDF format. Sponsored by Reuters.
• CheapBytes Home Page - Offer Linux, BSD, X, and other software on cheap CDs.
• Ciphire Mail - An email security tool. Aimed for the average, non-technical individual who has no real knowledge of security or cryptography.
• CircleID - Comments about the Internet Naming and Addressing Network
• Coordinated State Enforcement of Microsoft Antitrust Judgments - Here you can find information on the antitrust remedies ordered by the federal court and an on-line complaint form that may be used by the public to report suspected violations of the judgments.
• Croquet Project - A combination of open source computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users. Such collaboration is carried out within the context of a large-scale distributed information system. The software and architecture define a framework for delivering a scalable, persistent, and extensible interface to network delivered resources.
• CSS Zen Garden - Demonstrates what can be accomplished in visual design by using cascading style sheets. Includes a collaborative on-line gallery.
• Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. - A small consultancy specialized in object-oriented programming and pattern languages, located in Portland, OR.
• cwm - A general purpose data processor for the semantic web. It is a forward chaining reasoner which can be used for querying, checking, transforming and filtering information. Its core language is RDF, extended to include rules, and it uses RDF/XML or RDF/N3 (see Notation3 Primer) serializations as required. Cwm is written in python; it is part of SWAP, a Semantic Web Application Platform.
• DARCS - Utility based on the author's "theory of patches" in which they are likened to operators in quantum mechanics. Additionally, every copy of the source is a full repository. Written in Haskell and released under the GNU GPL.
• dashboard - Automatically show a user useful files and other objects as he goes about his day.
• D-BUS - A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Supplies both a system daemon and a per-user-login-session daemon.
• Deep Space 6 - The Linux IPv6 Portal - Working to enhance the Linux implementation of the IPv6 protocol and to provide information and support to users and developers who want to learn more about IPv6 and its use with Linux. Has mailing lists.
• Desktop Linux - Using Linux on enterprise and end user desktops. Has news, information, and resources on using Linux as a desktop operating system for personal and business purposes.
• Digium - An Open Source telecommunications supplier. The primary corporate sponsor of the Asterisk Open Source PBX. Offers a variety of specifically designed low and high density telephony hardware and professional services related to Asterisk.
• Drupal - An engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. Modular design allows flexibility in design. A web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one package.
• DWI -- Data With Interaction - An experimental platform for exploring ways of making application development simpler.
• EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation - The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights.
• END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM DESIGN - The end-to-end principle, suggests that functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level.
• Eric Meyer - CSS - Articles, tutorials, discussion and resources for CSS.
• An essay on W3C's design principles - What is a good standard?
• Evolt - Community of and articles by web developers. Covers all areas of professional web design.
• Explore SVG ; examples and resources - promotes Scalable Vector Graphics, with links to examples and resources.
• Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) - Has IETF Specifications, XML Schemas, Implementation Guide, History of XMPP.
• Fedora Tracker - A comprehensive but easy to use index of Fedora apt/yum repositories on the internet. You can search by repository or by package.
• FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit that provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat.
• The FOAF Project - Home page of the FOAF project, provides an introduction to the project concepts and details of the latest developments.
• freedesktop.org - a free software project to work on interoperability and shared technology for desktop environments for the X Window System. a "collaboration zone" where ideas and code can be tossed around, and de facto specifications encouraged.
• Freedom Technology Center - The Freedom Technology Center is a flexible training and meeting facility.
• Freedom to Tinker - An Ed Felten personal weblog focused on issues related to legal regulation of technology, and especially on legal attempts to restrict the right of technologists and citizens to tinker with technological devices.
• Freenet - Distributed system for semi-privately storing documents.
• FreeTTS Speech Synthesizer - Written in Java, based upon Flite 1.1: a run-time speech synthesis engine from Carnegie Mellon. Open source, BSD.
• fuckMicrosoft.com | What's So Bad About Microsoft? - The ultimate expression of intolerance for Microsoft's unfair exploitation of the personal computer operating system and software markets, fuckMicrosoft.com offers e-mail forwarding and virtual hosting solutions for the ever-growing anti-Microsoft and anti-Windows communities.
• GAR Architecture - The GAR system is a similar system to the BSD ports collection. It's a mechanism for automating the compilation and installation of third-party source code.
• GCC: GNU Compiler Collection - Developed by GNU project as free compiler for GNU system. Front ends: C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada; libraries for libstdc++, and libgcj. Mission, mail lists, timeline, contributors, committee, instructions, manual, FAQ, downloads, plans, bug reports. [Open Source, GPL]
• glish.com : CSS layout techniques - A resource for web designers and developers who want to learn CSS layout techniques to replace archaic table-based web page layouts..
• The GNOME Project - GNU Object Model Environment: Building a full, user-friendly desktop for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software. Will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME is part of the GNU project.
• Gnowsis - The gnowsis is a framework for a personal semantic desktop system.
• GNU Enterprise - Free software for business. GNUe is a set of tools, such as a data-aware user forms interface, a reporting system and an application server, which provide a development framework for information technology professionals to write or customise data-aware applications and deploy them. It is also a set of packages written using the tools, to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. From human resources, accounting, customer relationship management and project management to supply chain or e-commerce.
• GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) - The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software. FSF's mission is to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users.
• GNU Zebra - Manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP4 (RFC1771), RIPv1, RIPv2 and OSPFv2. Zebra makes use of OS threads where available.
• GOB - GObject Builder - a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so that generated files are not edited.
• GOCR - Optical Character Recognition program developed under the GPL. It can open many different image formats, and can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures.
• Groovy - Open-source pure Java implementation of a strongly-typed Genetic Programming experimentation platform. Groovy is a new agile dynamic language for the JVM. Groovy is designed to help you get things done on the Java platform in a quicker, more concise and fun way.
• GTK+: GIMP Toolkit - Library to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) originally for X Window. Designed to be small, efficient, flexible. Coded in C, in very object-oriented style. Language bindings: C++, Perl, Python, Objective-C, Guile. [Open Source, LGPL]
• HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer - Provide a specification and an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer -- presenting a nice, user-friendly interface to the hardware of a typical desktop system.
• Hardened-PHP - Adds security hardening features to PHP to protect your servers on the one hand against a number of well known problems in hastily written PHP scripts and on the other hand against potential unknown vulnerabilities within the engine itself.
• Holub Associates - Mentoring, Training (Java and OO), Publications.
• Icecast.org - streaming media server that supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming.
• identity commons - Federated identity standard framework for trusted electronic communications.
• Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++ - Thorough listing of incompatibilities between ISO C 99 and ISO C++ 98. An incompatible C feature in this context is valid as C code but not as C++ code.
• Inland Northwest Computers - Provides computer services for including repair, personal and business networking installation and diagnostics, hardware and software diagnostics, corporate or criminal computer forensics, Internet security and parental controls.
• Interlink Advantage - Spokane, Washington based internet company providing web hosting, web design, web development, e-commerce, network design and installation, multimedia development.
• The Internet Engineering Task Force - Large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
• Jabber - Jabber is a new open-source instant messaging platform designed to be open, fast, and easy to use and extend. It works directly over the Internet, has distributed servers, utilizes an XML based protocol, and has transparent compatibility with other instant messaging systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).
• Jive Software - Application suite combines advanced collaboration, self-service, and direct-support tools to provide users with fast, accurate answers. Our open, standards-based architecture allows for easy integration and customization to meet unique business needs. Some of it is GPLed. Uses Jabber and xmpp. [JAVA]
• Larabie Fonts - Loads of free futuristic, weird and retro fonts made by Ray Larabie.
• Large Vocabulary CSR Engine Julius - a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word 3-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 20k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc.
• Lasso - Liberty Alliance Single Sign On - A free software C library aiming to implement the Liberty Alliance standards; it defines processes for federated identities, single sign-on and related protocols. Lasso is currently focused on implementing the Liberty Alliance ID-FF 1.2 protocols. It is built on top of libxml2, XMLSec and OpenSSL and is licensed under the GNU General Public License (with an OpenSSL exception). SWIG is used to provide high-level bindings for other languages. Currently tested and distributed bindings are Python, Java and PHP as well as .NET assemblies (for C# and the .NET runtime environment).
• Liberty Alliance Project - The mission of the Liberty Alliance Project is to establish an open standard for federated network identity through open technical specifications.
• Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control - A howto with translations to Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Polish. Covers the topics of iproute2, traffic shaping, tunneling, IPsec, load balancing, load sharing, proxy-ARP, OSPF, BGP and netfilter. Written using DocBook SGML, with output in plain ascii, html, ps, and pdf available.
• Linux NetworX - Custom rackmountable Linux clusters with graphical management tools. Product information and company news.
• A List Apart - Web design, content, and coding. Accessibility, CSS, XHTML, scripting, server side, front and back end. Designing with web standards.
• M A B - Mozilla Amazon Browser - Rich Web Application to search products from Amazon. Showing results in a handy interface, typical of desktop programs, without distracting you with plenty of images and texts not concerning what you are effectively looking for. [XUL]
• Microsoft and Patents - Microsoft Corporation grew large and successful without patents, relying instead on copyright. Initially, Bill Gates was very critical of software patentability. However, as Microsoft began to play the game successfully, it became one of the staunchest supporters of software patentability. It has also been involved in promoting software patentability in Europe. Simultaneously Microsoft's has invested ample ressources into a campaign to dissuade governments and corporations from using free operating system. Pointing out the insecurity caused to Free Software by patents and contributing to this insecurity by occasional threats has become an important part of the campaign. At the same time, Microsoft itself appears to be a favorite victim of patent attacks.
• Mindjack - A weekly online magazine and daily weblog covering digital culture and emerging technologies.
• Monkeysphere Project - A framework to leverage the OpenPGP web of trust for OpenSSH authentication.
• Monospace/Fixed Width Programer's Fonts - Has review of fonts available. Uses criteria of crisp clear characters, extended characterset, use of whitespace, distinctness of problematic characters.
• Monotone Distributed Version Control System - A decentralized version control system based on secure hashes and cryptographic signatures. (Open Source)
• mozdev.org - xulmaker - Visual XUL application builder. Visually and interactively creates and edits a XUL document representing a XUL application by visually interacting with both an XML DOM (Document Object Model) and an XML text representation of the XUL document.
• mozilla - home of the mozilla, firebird, and camino web browsers - The Mozilla project developes Web Browsers, email clients, etc.
• MySQL - The MySQL's official homepage with news, downloads and documentation.
• MySQL Gotchas - A list of gotcha's to further a better understanding of the MySQL database server and hopefully save others unnecessary head-scratching. A "gotcha" is a feature or function which works as advertised - but not as expected.
• MyXaml - Open-source XAML effort. Offers developers declarative markup capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications using a markup language called XAML.
• Naked Objects - A software framework for designing and developing business systems. All user actions consist of invoking methods directly upon those business objects, or sometimes upon the object's class. There are no scripts, no controllers, nor even any dialog boxes in between the user and the 'naked' objects.
• the noodle incident - Web Design and Cascading Style Sheet stuff
• OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• Open Source Initiative OSI - Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation that promotes the use of Software that programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for.
• Open Source Software CD - Has burnable ISO image for a CD that contains free open-source software for Microsoft Windows 95 and higher. Availible via http, ftp, rsync, or bittorrent.
• Open Source Software Institute - Forum for the exchange of information and promotion of ideals embodied in open-source software.
• OpenReader Consortium - A cooperative project to create next-generation software for reading digital publications. The software and accompanying format are for books, periodicals, newspapers, business documents, and other similar types of publications — most any type of content best presented in a page-based manner. The OpenReader System will be open source, built upon XML and related open standards.
• OpenSPF - The SPF Community Position on SenderID. Microsoft's SenderID proposal is technically unsound and undermines the progress already begun by SPF. SPF development and deployment predate Microsoft's entry into the field and have achieved significant success to date. SenderID, in its most recent form, appears likely to interfere with the correct function and deployment of SPF.
• PEAK - The Python Enterprise Application Kit - Can be used with other "Python Enterprise" frameworks such as Zope, Twisted, and the Python DBAPI to construct web-based, GUI, or command-line applications, interacting with any kind of storage, or with no storage at all. Includes component binding framework, configuration framework, "document-driven testing" framework similar to "FIT":http://fit.c2.com/ , naming-system/framework that's midway between J2EE's JNDI and CORBA's cosNaming in features, An "event-driven" programming framework that supports ultralight "microthreads" implemented via generators, and interacts with Twisted or stands alone.
• Perl.Com - The official Perl home page, run by O'Reilly. Contains documentation, news, and links to a variety of resources.
• The PGP Global Directory - A verified directory of PGP keys. Unlike previous servers that stored PGP keys indiscriminately, the PGP Global Directory allows users to manage their keys in the directory, even if they have lost the private component of the stored key.
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs to Apache and other web servers; easy access to MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, and other databases; IMAP; LDAP; HTTP headers and cookies. This site is the official home of PHP4.
• Plone Content Management System - Plone is a Content Management System. Plone is built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework. Plone can used as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
• Position Is Everything - Explains CSS bugs in modern browsers, provides demo examples of CSS behaviors, and shows how to 'make it work' without using tables for layout purposes.
• PostgreSQL - Sophisticated open-source Object-Relational DBMS supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. Completely free database.
• PowerDNS - PowerDNS is a non-BIND nameserver based on open source and proprietary software for registries, registrars, ISPs, web hosts and corporate servers.
• Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books.
• Python Programming Language - Home page for Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.
• QR Code Generator - Better than bar codes. Type in some text then get a qr code back.
• Quagga Software - Routing Suite software. CVS access, snapshots, binary builds and a Bugzilla bug reporting site. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra.
• RDFWeb and Friend of a Friend (FOAF) developer site - RDFWeb is an experimental linked information system, exploring some interconnected applications of the Semantic Web, beginning with the deployment of FOAF.
• ReactOS - Opensource effort to develop a quality operating system compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
• reStructuredText - reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax. Lightweight and cool.
• RSS 1.0 - The latest "Complex RSS" specification. As created by the members of RSS-DEV. It extends RSS with RDF-style metadata, and modules.
• SchemaWeb - RDF Schemas Directory - SchemaWeb is a repository for RDF schemas expressed in the RDFS, OWL and DAML+OIL schema languages.
• SecurityFocus Home Page - SecurityFocus is designed to facilitate discussion on security related topics, create security awareness, and to provide the Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of security knowledge and resources to the public. It also hosts the BUGTRAQ mailing list.
• Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad - Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad
• SemanticWeb.org - Portal of the Semantic Web Community. Projects, tools and ongoing events.
• SemWebCentral - Collaborative open source software development tool for the Semantic Web.
• Silva - A browser based CMS for creating publications for the web, paper, and other media. Content is stored in a clean and future-proof format, independent of layout and presentation, suitable for use in multiple contexts. Zope based.
• SimpleBits - SimpleBits: the hypertext home of web design consultant and author, Dan Cederholm.
• SourceID Federated Identity Management - An open source multi-protocol project for enabling identity federation and cross-boundary security. SourceID focuses on ease-of-integration and deployment within existing web applications, products or services. In addition, SourceID provides a high-level of developer functionality and customization and is designed to shield the integrator and enterprise from needing to understand the complexities of federation, or the rapidly evolving federation standards.
• Speex , a free codec for free speech - Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression format designed for speech.
• Sphinx-4 - A speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. [Java, BSD Licensed]
• Stateless Linux Project - An OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora Linux computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state. For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. Provide several technologies for doing this.
• Stay Safe Online - Tools and resources to empower home users, small businesses, schools and universities to stay safe online.
• Stroustrup: C++ Style and Technique FAQ - These are questions about C++ Style and Technique that people often ask me Stroustrup, who designed and implemented c++.
• SVG Open - Developers Conference - Conference on interactive vector-based webgraphics, Online GIS and Webmapping. Organized by W3C, Zurich's Universities and carto.net. Zurich 2002.
• svg-developers - This is a mailing list and web forum for anyone who is interested in developing content in the new SVG format from the W3C.
• Tresys Technology - Focuses on the advancement and application of state-of-the-art network security technology in order to help our customers improve the security of their network products and services.
• Twibright Optar - OPTical ARchiver is a data archiving codec for paper. Uses forward error correction code, and Golay code.
• Ubuntu Linux - A free software distribution aimed at non-English and disabled users. Information and downloads provided.
• UIWEB.COM - Web and interaction design - UIWEB.COM: Web design, web usability and interface design essays and thoughts. Design education with annotated references to websites and books, top design issues and solutions
• UK Resource on Software Patents - News on what is going on in regards with software patents. Explains in plain English the technicalities of this difficult and controversial topic, and show how someone could get involved. Arguments in favour of software patents are that software is simply another area of technology, and that a technical device should be patentable whether it is designed in hardware or software. However this argument is simplistic at best, and at worst opens the doors to a complete de-regulation of the patent system.
• The UNIX System -- 64bit and Data Size Neutrality - The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2 provides enhanced support for 64-bit programming models by being n-bit clean and data size neutral. This article is a brief introduction to 64-bit programming models, data size neutrality, and application porting issues.
• The UNIX System, UNIX System - The Open Group holds the UNIX trademark in trust for the industry, and manages the UNIX trademark licensing program. Has sus98 and other standards availible here.
• URI Query Agent (URIQA) Model - URIQA (URI Query Agent) is a model for knowledge discovery, both from authoritative sources as well as from arbitrary third party sources. This introduces an extension to the present web architecture used to indicate to a web server that it should resolve the specified URI in terms of knowledge about the resource denoted by that URI rather than in terms of a representation of the resource in question.
• Usb Sniffer for Windows - Based on tom and roland from wingmanteam work. A tool that log the usb data exchange between hardware and device driver.
• Use Cases - Courses, consulting, and articles on software development, particularly use cases, software requirements.
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design - Alertbox column, Web usability, usability engineering, and Jakob's minimalist approach to Web quality; Jakob's biography. Conferences and training events.
• Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much) - Instructions on how to use a hosts file to avoid viewing ads and to make your internet experience more pleasant.
• Web architecture: Metadata - Metadata Architecture. introduces the world of machine-readable data on the web.
• Web Standards Project - Promoting standards compliance on the Web. Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. Has opinion's, tips, press releases, tutorials, articles, reference charts, templates, and a directory of website resources.
• Wine HQ - Wine HQ is development site for Wine. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine HQ has documentation, news, downloads, forums, and CVS.
• World of Ends - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. Ten Interesting ideas.
• World Wide Web Consortium - W3C's nearly 400 member organizations lead the World Wide Web to its full potential. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia.
• W3Schools Web Tutorials - Large collection of tutorials. HTML, XHTML, and Javascript. [Beginner to Advanced]
• XBRL - Extensible Business Reporting Language - A royalty-free, open specification to describe financial information for public and private companies and other organizations. Overview, FAQ, press releases, rescources, demonstrations and information about events.
• XDI - Infrastructure for Accountable Networks - An international non-profit organization governing public services based on the XRI abstract identifier and XDI data interchange protocols under development at OASIS. This new layer of infrastructure enables individuals and organizations to establish persistent Internet identities and form long-term, trusted peer-to-peer data sharing relationships.
• Xiph.Org multimedia - a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets. Associated with Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Speex, Icecast, etc.
• XML.ORG: The XML Industry Portal - News, education, and information about the application in industrial and commercial settings.
• Xpriori - Providers of Information Management Solutions.
• YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) - A straightforward machine parsable data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages such as Perl and Python.
• Zend - A bottom-up rewrite of the PHP scripting engine. It features a modular architecture, vastly improved performance, and greater scalability.
• ZOPE - Z Object Publishing Environment-- Zope is an open source application server for building content managements, intranets, portals, and custom applications.Zope is written in Python.

• Identity Commons helping get better grip on digital identity - Article related to Security and Privacy. Identity management governs the definition, storage, use and management of a person's digital identity within an organization. Talks about major federated identity management initiatives - WS-Federation, Liberty Alliance, and Identity Commons. (October 7, 2004)
• Semantic Web roadmap - An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture of the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee. (September 14, 1998)
• Citizen Microsoft by Jeff Reifman - It's time we stopped acquiescing to the behemoth in Redmond, because what's good for big business isn't necessarily good for Washington. Talks about how tax breaks and influence in Olympia are good for Microsoft, but bad for the rest of the state. Mentions that in search of profits, Microsoft routinely walks the line between ethical, aggressive business practices and unethical, sometimes illegal behavior. As this nature of Microsoft's business practices become better known, it risks losing goodwill. This ill will is motivating customers to seek out emerging competitors -- such as Linux distributors. (September 29, 2004)

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