Attention AWS developers! The rBuilder Appliance Creator and rBuilder Catalog for EC2 are now available to automate the assembly of software components, the creation of AMIs and the deployment of images to EC2. You will have the ability to securely integrate your AWS account credentials, allowing you to launch, manage, and retire application images for EC2 directly from within the product. Dynamic search and catalog capabilities provide a basis for future management activities directed at large scale catalogs of machine images. The beta product is free of charge to AWS developers.

Design/ers for Obama was created when Design Observer essentially asked the question, “how can graphic designers best support Barack Obama?” Our answer ended up extending the question to cover visual communicators at all levels. In addition to supporting Obama for America we jumped at the opportunity to bring the spirit of grassroots style organizing and collaboration to poster design which, to us, meant not only forming communal bonds but sharing the fruits of our efforts equally and in such a way that anyone can enjoy and benefit from (because most of us do not own our own printing presses).

Draco is clean and simple, with its aesthetics geared towards focusing the users attention on what matters – the product/application your are showcasing. Purples and blues are used to give a prestigious and luxurious feeling

An open protocol to allow API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

Fire eagle is a Yahoo! location sharing service that provides an API that allows external clients and services to update and query user location information. Besides the obvious interesting connection between a location sharing service and Android’s Location-Based-Services API, I became more interested in how fire eagle uses OAuth as it’s authorization scheme and how it can be used on a smart mobile device.

ClockingIT is a free hosted application,
keeping track of all your
tasks and the time you
spend on them.

ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.