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Nowadays many JavaScripters are aware of the advantages of event delegation. Chris Heilmann and Dan Webb, among others, have discussed its advantages, and I've been using it as much as possible for about two years now. Event delegation is especially useful in effects like dropdown menus, where lots of events on links may take place that can easily be handled at the root level (an or in this case).

Git is a decentralized version control system created by Linus Torvalds that is used by a number of open source projects, most notably perhaps the Linux kernel. GitHub is a new hosted Git repository service that's being called a "social network" for programmers and with good reason. It also already has some high profile projects of its own on board: Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Merb, Prototype and Scriptaculous, among others. "[GitHub is] the way SourceForge should have been," gushed one beta tester.

Here are the points I consider important when we're talking about Ajax APIs in JavaScript (Ajax implies that but you'd be surprised how often a REST API is advertised as Ajax): Good documentation / Usage examples to copy + paste / Modularity / Link results to entries / Offer flexible input / Allow for custom object transportation / Cover usability basics

Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven't been contacted by Google.

Folksonomies are at the pinnacle of Web 2.0 technology. But is there any room for improvements? The disadvantages of folksonomy tagging can be improved upon by semantic 'type-tags.'

Interesting how something that is a great service and idea can be messed up by just poor handling

This may be the new direction for google