links for Friday, November 02

Mark Carey has been kind enough to package up these podcasting feed templates for use with his Template Installer plugin. Thanks Mark!

Oooh - good gift idea

There is a lot of hoopla in the tech industry around Google's latest project called "OpenSocial" - a platform and set of developer APIs/tools that would allow people to write and deploy web based applications on top of any social network. Many want to make this story almost exclusively about "Facebook vs. MySpace vs. Google," but that not was is important. Freedom of choice is important. Privacy is important. Open standards are important. Patent-free, license-free technology is important. That is what I, and my colleagues at Six Apart are focusing on.