It's been a while since I dipped my nose in web development, slightly more than a month in fact. A month of work, learning to use **C++** with **Qt** and **OpenGL**, in order to rebuild the simulator behind our Reactive Systems course.

The reason I've come back to web development though, is that [Mootools][1], my favorite **Javascript** framework, has finally reached version 1.2. It's been a while since the first beta of this version came out, and I've been pretty damn excited about this one.

They've restructured the library to be more modular and lower level, which gives it much more potential, and makes for a much more efficient and speedy web experience.

Needless to say, I'm not going to be able to resist writing the scripts in my personal site, which needed an overhaul anyway.

While I'm here, let's take a look at some interesting sites I've come across in the *Web 2.0* world:

* I've been working on a web command line for a while, but it's still only a toy. However, I'm not the only one who likes command line. [Goosh][2] is a full command line version of **Google**, with all the functionality of Point&Click **Google**, but in delicious and satisfying prompt-o-vision:

* **Google Maps** gave us the ability to see the world from above, and plan journeys from A to B with nifty crazy algorithms, but what if you wanted a map of the Internet? Well now you can see [The Whole Internet][3], IP addresses and all.

* For those who like statistics, and even the more gruesome statistics, [WorldOMeters][4] has real time estimated statistics of many fascinating and scary numbers.

* We've all seen and used **RSS** aggregators, and some of them stand out, like **NetVibes** for example, but [RSSVoyage][5] takes it a step further and makes you want to have a giant screen for your feeds.

* Last but not least, here's a news application with a difference. It takes the latest **Google News**, and presents it in a meaningful tree graph: [Marimushi][6]

On a last note, it looks like all the major video streaming websites are upgrading their players, to my greatest delight, and even though they still don't beat [Vimeo][7] (all hail), it's a real breath of fresh air for the older sites, like **YouTube**.

[1]: http://mootools.net "The Mootools Javascript framework"
[2]: http://goosh.org/ "Goosh: Command Line Google :D"
[3]: http://thewholeinternet.wordtothewise.com "The Whole Internet: a map of the internet"
[4]: http://www.worldometers.info "WorldOMeters: Realtime World Statistics"
[5]: http://www.rssvoyage.com/#RSS=loaded "RSSVoyage: Another way to RSS"
[6]: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ "Marimushi: News with a different view"
[7]: http://vimeo.com "The Vimeo Video Community"