Link roundup for 5/6/08
mail-trends: Mihai Parparita’s tool to let you analyze and visualize your own Google-based email collection. The software is still in its early stages and requires a Python installation and a Google Apps or Gmail account. Mail-trends is open source under the BSD license. Hopefully, Mihai will update the package to support other IMAP servers in the near future.
FreeLDAP.org offers free LDAP hosting for personal use. It can be used with any product that includes an LDAP client. For example, it could be used as a centralized address book across multiple email clients.
Slide Tips: A Decade in the Life of the Presentation Industry: Lisa Lindgren’s article on the SlideShare Blog provides a nice overview of changes in the presentation industry presentation technology. It would have been even more interesting if she had discussed the new web-based presentation tools with social features such as SlideShare itself.

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