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BBC’s 15 Web Principles – developed by the Beeb as part of their web2.0 project. Quite a useful check list, although some of them nicked from google. See http://www.tomski.com
Include aspects like – do one thing really well, make sure all your content can be linked to forever, encourage users to take your content with them, link to discussions on the web don’t host them.

Jakob Nielsen interview regarding Search Engine Results. Lots of debate about this interview too. Full scoop here

More links to good resources on the net for planning/ strategy
http://plannersphere.pbwiki.com/ in it’s infancy but a wiki deidcated to planning

Russell Davies ‘Uber Planner’ – Web Planning School here

MediaGuardian reports current financials. Impressive numbers….

• 90K new adds
• 8.6m total Pay TV customers
• Sky+ put on 200K to 2.4m
• Internet put on 259K to 795K
• ARPU increased by £21 to £412
• Churn down from 13.7 to 12.1%

Everyone’s gotta an App now.
My thoughts and others on this topic, for future reference.

http://www.kottke.org likens the Facebook API to AOL’s walled garden approach siggesting that as more and more social networking platforms introduce their own APIs then more and more effort is required to integrate/develop Apps. He concludes suggesting that we should be developing Apps for the open system of the net, not the closed walled gardens of Facebook et al. N.B Facebook UGC not indexed by search engines
“…In competitive markets, open and messy trumps closed and controlled in the long run. Everything you can do on Facebook with ease is possible using a loose coalition of blogging software, IM clients, email, Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader, etc. Sure, it’s not as automatic or easy, but anyone can participate and the number of things to see and do on the web outnumbers the number of things you can see and do on Facebook by several orders of magnitude (and always will)…more“

Critically reviewing the myriad of social networking type applications that have flooded the net of late. Living list and observations of the different applications below …or see via delicious for more extensive and broader list

http://www.facebook.com - fast establishing itself as the Leader of the gang., partly due to it’s trawl your contacts and invite your friend’s application, and due to it’s open API platform.

http://pownce.com/ – signed up for this, beta not live yet. Well written beta sign up page tho

http://hi5.com - “Who’s in?”

http://twitter.com/ “what are you doing?”

http://uk.myspace.com/ “a place for friends” – july07 UK claims 10m profiles/users (internal stats), the same as the number of dog owners in the UK which is an interesting comparison!