Quoth Twitter:

When your downtime is measured in days (not minutes or hours), I question how “quickly” they are working on it.

Oh well, you get what you pay for I guess.

Brian Benzinger put together a nice roundup of Web 2.0 apps for developers:

I’m talking actual products for project planning, system administration, usability testing, collaborative development, and web services. I decided to make a compilation of products that developers may find useful. There’s a little bit of everything in here - some are still in private beta, but still worth mentioning.

While I don’t have a real use for many (most?) of the sites listed, I always like checking out the latest well-designed sites. Some of those listed are really worth checking out.

Elliotte Rusty Harold gives Ten predictions for XML in 2007:

2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power … 2007 will be a very good year to work with XML.

Read the whole thing.

Tutorialicious is like Digg/Reddit for tutorials, including a Python category. Cool.

Quoth Ian at LAMP Training:

We deliver on-site courses throughout the US and worldwide on a range of web technologies, drawing from our personal experience of developing and deploying web-applications, creating web-frameworks, and contributing to open-source software.

Course categories include Web 2.0, Python, Django, and Linux/MySQL/PostgreSQL.

The self-published Getting Real book from 37Signals is now available online for free (HTML). The PDF and print versions are still available for $19 and $29, respectively.

Paul Graham talks about what makes startups fail.

This seems to be generating some buzz…

Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Did we mention it works with TextMate, too? It’s code 2.0.

Heh. Gotta love the Web 2.0 compliant name.

Also notable, if you write a Snipplr plug-in you could get a free t-shirt.

Update: Check out the note from Tyler about the name in the comments.

PyMagnolia helps you use the Ma.gnolia.com (social bookmarking site) API.

Check out Getting Ninged + Getting Flocked = The Two Chasms of 2.0 at Bubblegeneration. Interesting little post.

And in case you want to check out some more Web 2.0 goodness, Sacred Cow Dung (heh!) has a list of All Things Web 2.0.