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Here’s a couple of sites using google maps API I found.

Trulia Real Estate
MapBuilder.net
smugMaps

We are actively recruiting folks interested in participating in our beta program. Intervals beta program participants get to use intervals free for 3 months, then 50% off for the next 9 months.

If you are a freelancer, small business, or department of a large business and are having a difficult time managing tasks and tracking time, intervals may be perfect for you.

» Learn more about Intervals

» Sign-up for the beta program today

1. Be Narrow
2. Be Different
3. Be Casual
4. Be Picky
5. Be User-Centric
6. Be Self-Centered
7. Be Greedy
8. Be Tiny
9. Be Agile
10. Be Balanced

Read the details here: http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

Our guiding principals for Intervals development are very agreeable with Evan Williams’ thoughts. We have been around for over 6 years, so we’re not a start-up, but our decision to develop a web-based product definitely makes part of our company a start-up. We see many companies, and especially small companies, trying to niche products in the market for the new type of consumer. We are optimistic that Intervals will fill a need for folks who need a no-nonsense time and task management system.

We’ll see how it goes in 2006 – Michael

I saw this link on my link back section. It’s a nice showcase of the new multi-user features available for the Flash Player.

http://collab.nl/index2.html

We are actively developing Intervals; web based task & time management. We originally developed Intervals for our own company and we have had so much interest that we are redeveloping it and will offer it as a subscription based service.

If you are interested in following the project, please visit intervals101.com.

>> Michael

“That gap is closing. Take a look at Google Suggest. Watch the way the suggested terms update as you type, almost instantly. Now look at Google Maps. Zoom in. Use your cursor to grab the map and scroll around a bit. Again, everything happens almost instantly, with no waiting for pages to reload.”

Read more here

>>The fact that a page has to reload in order for the user to retrieve content is quickly becoming a thing of the past. It’s great that the majority of the web browsers are compliant enough that we can start using the Ajax concept. –Jaime

“San Francisco (InfoWorld) – Netli on Monday rolled out a new service designed to speed the delivery of Web-services traffic over the Internet.
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NetLightning for Web Services is an application-specific optimization service that uses specialized protocols to avoid network latency and stop performance degradation of machine-to-machine communications. The Netli protocols include techniques for bandwidth management and loss and congestion control.”

>> We anticipate a lot of products in the Web Services space in the next few years. This space has been a confusing buzzword area, but it is maturing and impacting people’s day to day desktop lives …even though they often don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes.

- Michael

John Littler discusses the relationship between art and computer programming. At Pelago, we stress and cross train in both disciplines, hence the tagline “creative engineering, logical design.”

Functional specifications (functional specs), in the end, are the blueprint for how you want a particular web project or application to look and work. It details what the finished product will do, how a user will interact with it, and what it will look like. By creating a blueprint of the product first, time and productivity are saved during the development stage because the programmers can program instead of also working out the logic of the user-experience. It will also enable you to manage the expectations of your clients or management, as they will know exactly what to expect.

We’ve been using Zen Cart for a few of our clients and have been fairly happy with it so far. Zen Cart is an open source shopping cart application. The functionality is great, but the directory structure and conventions take a little getting used to.

Blackbird Design Studio has this nice directory map that can be used as a handy reference. – Michael