I ran across this post on the Google Blog describing what makes a web design Googly. Here are Googles 10 design principles:

Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams.
Every millisecond counts.
Simplicity is powerful.
Engage beginners and attract experts.
Dare to innovate.
Design for the world.
Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
Be worthy of [...]

A great podcast via IT Conversations, Technometria series. In depth discussion of Ajax implementations, design considerations and toolkits. It offers some great insight into Ajax application development by a veteran in field.
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In this edition of Technometria, Phil and Scott talk to Joseph Smarr, the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. Plaxo makes great use [...]

The following email was sent to Amazon Web Services customers on 4/23/08 announcing the new pricing structure for data transfers

Dear Amazon Web Services developers,
We’ve often told you that one of our goals is to drive down costs continuously and to pass those savings on to you. We have been able to reduce our costs for [...]

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If you arent farmiliar with Microformats you can get up to speed over at microformats.org. The Operator Firefox addon by Michael Kaply allows you to see what pages have microformat information embeded in them and allows you to do something with it.
It does what you expect, turns hCard info into downloadable vCards or shoots it [...]