B. Mann Consulting

A selection of interesting websites:

• Laszlo Systems
  These guys build Flash like it's an app. All based on some Java and XML stuff. Looks very smooth, and very excellent for building web-based applications. I still want my bank (or ANY bank) to implement a Flash-based app for Internet banking...all the current implementations I've seen suck (including "back" breaking your session).

  Especially check out the demos.

• itopik
  A website that is attempting to provide a directory of sorts for blogs. What would be REALLY useful is the ability to have RSS feeds for whatever cateogry you want, that in turn pulls in the RSS feeds for each topic. Which is kind of what I do manually with the bundles in Drupal here.
• itown
  Place-blogging, but kind of a city guide thing as well? I browsed around a bit, tried to read some about pages, but it wasn't completely clear. Again, a centralized directory where people in the same area/town can list their blogs.

  I was fiddling around, trying to get an RSS feed out of my "Ottawa" category, and also thinking that I could add a "Bowen Island" category, but it looks like Drupal doesn't currently do this. Well, unless I create separate "users" with those names, and use their user blogs to post about those things, but that is a messy solutions, esp. as I would have to log in and out all the time.