Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Both the presentation layer as the scraping part…
"EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a "microlocal" level — by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."

Goed geschreven samenvatting hoe OpenID, XRDS, Oauth, en apis als PortableContacts en OpenSocial samenwerken om gedistribueerd social networking ecosysteem te bouwen.

Treat Twitter #hashtags like an IRC channel.
Project by Alex Bosworth
See http://tweetbe.at/#cot and http://tweetbe.at/#hackdeoverheid as examples
Uses Twitter Oauth to post.

Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's developer community site.

Code snippet sharing site.
Apparently Activestate is popular in the Python community…

Matt Mullenweg on the question whether WordPress themes are a derivative work (thus GPL) php+html mix is derivative, thus GPLed, css + images are not.
Drupal has a similar point of view: http://drupal.org/node/272652 and so has Joomla, http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3510&Itemid=74 (although they say that javascript is data too)