http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/

http://corporate.zvents.com/developers/

http://api.eventful.com/

Does http://going.com have one? I sure don’t see it.

Know of a site similar to the ones offering the above APIs? Let me know.

So, Digial Scrapbooking is cool, and apparently pretty big. I don’t do scrapbooking, but my wife does, and I’m so excited that she asks all kinds of great questions about Photoshop now, etc.

Before you go looking, the industry standard Photoshop product is $699. For casual, even “advanced” (sorry, I’m not sure what word your culture uses!) scrapbookers, that price can be extremely steep – especially considering that the full featured product is overkill, with many features that (I imagine) most scrapbook projects will never use.

Adobe does have a related product, Photoshop Elements, which is scaled down, and probably a closer-to-perfect fit for most scrapbookers. I believe they even sell this edition at Walmart, etc, for around $139.99.

However great those products are, I’m mostly here to point out some competition: GIMP (Wikipedia).

GIMP is a freely available alternative to other “graphics manipulation software”. For those on a tight budget, or that just like to be thrifty, GIMP is a very capable choice.

I’m no professional GIMP user (rather, I’m often in Photoshop) but I’m interested in helping others jump in on the free (and open-source) software options. If you’re interested in using GIMP, or you know of any interesting uses already, related to scrapbooking or otherwise, I’m interested to hear about it.

If you know the address, send me an email. Otherwise, find someone that knows how to get in contact with me. We’ll see if the whole six degrees thing really works.

Probably going to implement this with xMEMPHISx.

crowdSPRING was started to help people from around the world access creative talent, and to help creatives from across the globe find new customers.

Link.

Looks very cool. Seems similar to 99 Designs.

The inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, Cliff Kushler, is back in the game with a new alphanumeric entry technology for today’s devices: touch-screen laptops and smartphones.

Swype video on cnet (shown here).

Swype site.

WordSplosion.com

Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc. We call this family of word-related catastrophes “wordsplosions.”

WordSplosion is funny stuff. Not much so far, but this should turn out great.

Jonathan Snook – “An internationally-admired web designer and developer based in Ottawa, Canada”. He rocks.

I hadn’t seen Derek Powazek’s site before. Love the minimalism.

The Future of Web Design conference. In New York this year. I’d love to go.

SonSpring – SonSpring is a small, Christian web studio that specializes in creating sites for churches and non-profits.

Web Master Jam Sessions look interesting.

Top 7 Most Overused Techniques & Elements Used In Graphic Design. – Somewhat interesting article series, but definitely interesting site of design-related goodness. See also.

Most Important Thing I Would Tell A Design Student.

And a funny video to boot!

You Suck at Photoshop #4: Paths and Masks

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron