A first look at Toolicious (http://t.oolicio.us/).

1. T.oolicio.us

2. Bringing Good Things™ To the Web

3. First … Who am I?

4. A Georgia Tech Grad

5. Unstated  Graduation Year:

6. I Founded In 1994

7. We Sold Components and Tools To Developers

8. That is… Visual Basic Developers

9. Really FAST We grew

10. Xtras Made it to #123 In 1999

11. On The:

12. We Helped Developers Find Components We Made a Market for Component Vendors We did Good Things™

13. I Stopped Believing In What We Sold But around 2005

14. Were a Better Answer It Became Clear To Me Open-Source Components and Tools

15. And Went Searching So I Sold My Stake In Xtras

16. And Together We Created: I Met Ben Coffey During my search

18. with ethos of sites like del.icio.us The name combines a "Tools" concept

19. So what is Toolicious?

20. Toolicious is Like:

21. As in… The Parable of the Blind Men and The Elephant

22. Each Blind Man Describing the Elephant Differently: A Wall… A Spear… A Snake… A Tree… A Fan… A Rope!

23. It is all in the Perspective

24. So Toolicious is Different Things To Different People

25. Enhanced Functionality, Made Consistent Common Functionality on a Web Page For Web Users:

28. Let me show you

29. For Bloggers and Website Owners: (Back to the Elephant) Visible Value for Standards-based Semantic Markup

32. Oh, and add Semantic Markup… Like using <H1> thru <H3> tags for headings Instead of <B> and <BR> And in the Future, Lots More

33. Toolicious is Open-Source (GPL) For JavaScript Developers:

35. We’ll offer a Core Toolbar Site owners can add their own customizations

36. Will be community driven. And the Whole Process…

42. You know, like a Google Beta This is a Beta

44. Just Stop me and Ask Questions? (But Please Remember, It is Still a Beta!)