I am a member of these three user group and meetup.

If you live in the San Francisco bay area, please join:

The International Macintosh Users Group

Silicon Valley iPhone iPad Business Meetup

Bay Area Machine Translation User

I was there at Innovate 2009 and it was interesting to see how simple and powerful it is to integrate PayPal APIs to a website. Here are Keynotes and Breakout Sessions from Innovate 2009. Enjoy.

https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1584

Firebug

- download:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

- tutorials:

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/screencast/firebug-js/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W4jXAaEMp2M

Live HTTP Header

- download:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

Microsoft Surface:

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/07/cgs-ces-highlights-hands-on-with-the-surface/

Is it a MS innovation? or a half-MS innovation inspired by Apple?
Whatever it is, I really like the idea. Imagine the Surface in games, airlines, restaurants, schools, living rooms, etc. A lot of potentials.

MS deserves some credits for this.

Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080107/bill-gates-last-day-microsoft-video/

Dojo:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/dojo-release-1.0.2/dijit/themes/themeTester.html

- It’s a complete toolkit with i18n support, but slow… (Plaxo 3.0, KnowHow, etc)

Scriptaculous with Prototype:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/scriptaculous-js-1.8.0/test/run_functional_tests.html

- Light and easy to use. It seems to be more popular. No i18n support yet. (Digg, Apple, Wordpress, eBay, Nasa, etc)

- Prototype Cheat Sheet:

http://attic.scripteka.com/prototype_cheatsheet_1.6.0.2.pdf

prototype_cheatsheet_1602.pdf

http://thinkweb2.com/projects/prototype/

Facebook Animation:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/animation-1.0/test.html

- Just open sourced it. Very simple. No drag & drop support yet.

jMaki:

https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse/index.html

RSS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

Social Networking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

PR Web:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yU8R42AL0U

WIKI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Google’s My location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhgNZ5wMz2A

Google Docs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVUA-sKcc4

It’s pretty easy to do:

1. Create a PayPal account - http://www.paypal.com

2. Go to http://storefront.paypallabs.com and Login using your PayPal account.

3. Complete Step 1 - Modify your storefront

4. Complete Step 2 - Update your storefront

5. Click on “Help sell these projects”

6. Click on “Get Store” button.

This will copy the necessary html code to your clipboard.

7. Ctrl + V to paste your store to your blogs, homepages, etc.

8. You are now a online store owner. Get the word out that you are now in business