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No fancy, marketing double-talk. No buzzword hype. Just the real-deal from the talented folks who conceive and build the most popular apps on the Web. Even the format is plain text.

Things to look out for when building a large application

Put RSS everywhere you can. del.icio.us does way more RSS traffic than HTML or API stuff - partly because of poorly written readers.

—Joshua Schachter/del.icio.us [more...]

From web site to web application - Ten reasons to love Web 2.0

It's a mistake to think that if you don't build an API people won't do this stuff - they'll just hurt you more by scraping your pages.

—Cal Henderson/Flickr [more...]

Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit

So the same things that keep the hippies happy keep the evil capitalists happy. They all have to play in the same ecosystem. If not, you end up in a backwater, disconnected from the cool stuff that's happening.

—Tom Coates/Yahoo! [more...]

10 reasons why you need to build an API

An API turns your program in to a platform. As people build more and more tools on top of your application it becomes a necessity.

—Shaun Inman/Mint [more...]

Reality-Checking the Ajax Web Application Architecture

Ajax: A bad name is better than no name. It's client-side scripting done the right way - closely connected to the user experience.

—Steffen Meschkat/Google Maps [more...]

Some of these are no doubt available in slideshow presentation or even podcast. As I find them I will post links in the comments.

Via Simon Willison's Weblog.