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Last week, someone found Wordpress Shuttle | Administration Redesign Project. It looks very cool in my opinion. At least, it gives me smell like enterprise application. Anyway, flexibility might be decreased. We have to talk about each part one by one.

• Navigation menu - Actually, I don’t like horizontal menu at the top of the page because lacking of scalability. You can’t have too many menu items. I know that it is bad design to have lots of menu items. However, it is necessary in some cases.

According to , Google Notebook is available by now. Try it out at . Thanks to TechCrunch for this rapid . In fact, it is faster than Google Blog. Okay. Let us see what we have right now. Google Notebook is also AJAXified so you can drag and drop notes to rearrange or to move them to another book. Nothing special. As said in TechCrunch, you can’t label note by custom keywords. I don’t think labeling or tagging is that so important because you are using Google. Don’t forget about that. Google don’t trust your specified keyword on webpages. Google knows how to extract the right keywords from the given texts.

There are so many version control system for developers and users, e.g. CVS and Subversion. These 2 systems are all traditional ones which heavily rely on centralized model. In other words, you have to commit your change to the one and only one repository. If you don’t connect to the repository, you can’t do some operations especially commit the change. As a result, decentralized model has been studied to solve this problem. Bazaar-NG is one of powerful, cross-platform, and decentralized revision control system. It has been written in Python.

P2P has been consuming internet traffic over 60% for a few years. Most ISPs have blocked P2P traffic to reduce international bandwidth requirement by using layer-7 filtering or bandwidth shaping products. By the way, this policy causes user to switch to other ISPs instead. It seems True Internet -- the Thailand’s largest ISP -- has a new idea. They will never block P2P traffic or limit the traffic, instead they deploy a cache farm.

Once I saw , I like it. It is a great idea to combine specific events with search keywords popularity. Though, Google Zeitgeist is limited to events chosen by Google according to its popularity accumulated through the past year. According to the popular of Zeitgeist, Google launched  to publish hourly zeitgeist on a TV channel, , and monthly zeitgeist. In addition, this idea has also been applied to .

Google Calendar seems to be the best web-based calendar right now. Though, it doesn’t support WebDAV and CalDAV but it does provide  in  (aka GData client APIs). In fact, Google Calendar data APIs has just  about 20 days ago. As of today, there are at least 2 desktop programs which recognize Google Calendar and display your events directly on your desktop.