It snowed here a bit in Portland yesterday, so attendance is pretty light at work, and it feels pretty relaxed. But, it seems things are falling apart all over the place on the web. TypePad is having all sorts of problems lately, Del.icio.us is having issues, and Bloglines is moving and their servers are down for a few hours. It makes it really hard to slack when your favorite tools are offline.

As we reach the end of the year, many people are coming out with top 10 lists for this and that. It was exciting to see this week that NetworthIQ was included as #6 in the list of Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005. This article made the Digg home page and the del.icio.us/popular page, resulting in a surge of traffic and registrations at the site.

In the spirit of trying to be more positive about Microsoft on this site, I came across this list of “cool” .Net products/companies by Dan’l Lewin (via <a href="Scoble). I’ve only heard of a couple of them, but will be checking the others out. There’s also an intersting list of reasons for choosing .Net at the end of the article. I’m sure the open source crowd will have something to say about that.

This is a reference post for wikis (and other collaboration tools) that I need to check out: Basecamp (already using) Confluence Central Desktop Jotspot [Hosted] Social Text [Hosted] Stikipad [Hosted] WikiSpaces [Hosted] PBwiki [Hosted] Zimbra Perspective [.Net] FlexWiki [.Net] MediaWiki [PHP] DokuWiki [PHP] TikiWiki [PHP] PmWiki [PHP] Twiki [Perl] Kwiki [Perl] trac [Python] Zwiki [Python] Update: WikiMatrix looks at these too.

This is a reference post for me so that I can keep track of online calendar tools I’m interested in looking at. Kiko CalendarHub Planzo Hula Trumba Zimbra AirSet 30 boxes HipCal SpongeCell Update TechCrunch takes a look at these too. Final Update Not much need for this list anymore. Google Calendar wins. I generally root for the small guy, but it just didn’t work out this time.