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QuakerQuaker is powered by a number of fabulous "Web 2.0" services:

Del.icio.us

Everyone on the QuakerQuaker team bookmarks their favorite posts using the "social bookmarking" system at Del.icio.us, which outputs each category of every user into a unique RSS feed. This is the basic building block for the QuakerQuaker listings.

Feeddigest
Spicing together QuakerQuaker Team's separate Delicious feeds into one feed, Feeddigest also pulls the result together into a javascript code that fellow bloggers can use to easily add the latest QuakerQuaker links to their sidebars.

Feedburner
A fabulous service that adds a number of great features to the final RSS feed.

Feedblitz
Polls the QuakerQuaker feed daily and sends new entries out to email subscribers.

Flickr
The photos on the sidebar come from Flickr's Quaker group.

Frappr
New! A map of individuals who have located themselves on this service's Quaker list.

MagpieRSS
This software caches and displays RSS feeds on webpages.

Movable Type
The blogging software Moveabletype does not actually power a blog at QuakerQuaker. It's simply used as a easy-to-edit Content Management System.

Technorati
Tells us who's linking to QuakerQuaker and related websites, this is how we often first hear of new blogs.

Yahoo Pipes
The service that lets loose those who dream of spicing and dicing feeds.

Other Services and Inspirations

Paypal lets QuakerQuaker fans keep the servers humming (our hosting company draws its $60 monthly charge directly from the account). AXS Visitor Tracking and Google Analytics lets us see how people are using the site. Netvibes is the best of the new AJAX home pages with RSS feeds that can pull in blogs and link searches. The Techcrunch blog has clued us in to a lot of these cool services.