Links for Sunday May 14 2006

iondb: this is a cross-platform app for consuming all manner of podcasts. The critical difference from existing apps is that iondb also makes it simple to create your own playlists and share them. via Lucas Gonze.

End to end unicode web applications in python.

A Survey of Open Source Apps Available for Mac OS X. Slightly misleading title; this is a list of OS apps which have been ported from linux to OSX.

7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail. This is a great list; I found #6 especially interesting. Any time you echo back some kind of popularity metrics to your users, you create an amplification effect. But I can see Joshua’s point: explicitly revealing the voting numbers as Digg does increases its exposure to manipulation by groups of users and also subconsciously validates or invalidates links independant of their actual quality or interest to potential diggers. via Bookmarks.

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