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From my RSS feed, things worth notice:

• With EQO, you can have Skype in your cellphone;
• Google as bought MeasureMap.com;
• Yahoo released their UI library and their Design Patterns Library;
• Microsoft Office Live is coming.

Due to popular request, I decided to compile a very short list of Ruby on Rails resources:

• wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails - the official wiki, always the best place to start;
• edevil.wordpress.com/2005/11/16/ruby-on-rails-resources/ - very good list of resources (recommended!);
• www.bigbold.com/snippets/tag/rails</a> - for snippets of code of Ruby and Rails;
• wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects - for a list of open source projects made in Ruby on Rails.

These guys claim (in spanish) that the Matrix is a copy of Dark City. Well, Dark City is from 1998, and Matrix from 1999, and when you see the evidences it sure looks like plagiarism.

30 boxes debuted 4 days ago, and it rockz! Finally found my calendar service, thank you guys:

• Add new events through a command line (brilliant);
• Eficient Ajax powered interface, working in all browsers;
• Tag enabled events;
• Shared events, even with people outside 30boxes;
• Full integration with iCal and Outlook;
• Javascript/HTML badge to include a snippet of your calendar in other web sites;
• Will have an API soon.

Ahhhh, and it's free.

Azureus and uTorrent (the two most popular bittorrent clients) had included in their latest beta new forms of encryption, which will provide a completely random-looking header and (optionally) payload to avoid passive protocol identification and traffic shaping. The technical details are a bit hairy, but if have the guts you can always take a peek here.

But Bram Cohen, the guy who invented the Bittorrent protocol, does not agree with this decision, since he believes that ISP's will be able to still detect Bittorrent traffic, and that this could harms the Internet performance as a whole, as stated in his blog.

What's next, an encrypted Skype?