Ident Engine is an open source JavaScript library that can bring together the footprints every user leaves on various social networks.

The library supports more than 70 sites, including all the popular ones like Twitter, Flickr, Facebook or Youtube.

From Glenn Jones, the creator of the library:

Wouldn’t it be a little magical if, when you signed up for a new site, the site said something like, “We notice you have a profile photo on Flickr and Twitter, would you like to use one of those or upload a new one?”

Ident Engine makes this totally possible.

It analyzes the relations between various networks using the rel="me" tags & Social Graph API’s "lookup" method.

And, to parse the profiles Yahoo’s YQL or a .Net parser, UfXtract is used.

More technical details can be found at "Discovering Magic", an article by Glenn Jones, and you can always check the demos to see the power of Ident Engine.

WMD is a lightweight HTML editor which is ideal for blog comments, forum posts & basic content management.

It can be implemented into any textarea with one line of code & with an extra line, live preview functionality can be implemented.

This is not a WYSIWYG editor. Rather, it is a WYSIWYM Markdown editor (what you see Is what you mean).

WMD produces clean semantic HTML, leaving presentation details like fonts and colors up to style sheets.

Markdown: a simple markup language that’s as easy to read and write as plain-text email.

gRaphaël is an open source JavaScript charting library that is based on Raphaël graphics library (WRD link).

It is capable of generating both static & interactive outputs including pie, bar, line or dot charts.

The charts are created with VML & supports the most popular browsers like Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0.

There are some beautiful demos provided including the interactive pie chart & the dot chart.

Dezinerfolio is presenting a fresh set of 30 free & iPhone-like vector icons.

The icons are all in one .PSD file, well-layered, ready to modify & improve.

Besides web applications, they are also suitable to be used as iPhone menu bar icons.

xCSS is a CSS framework that makes developing complex style structures easier within an object-oriented workflow.

Using xCSS can save a lot of development time by:

• using variables
• having a intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure
• re-using existing style cascades
• & more..

xCSS requires PHP 5 to run & can be configured very quickly by inserting few lines to the webpages + the stylesheet.

The framework is lightweight, can seamlessly integrate into any existing workflow & well-documented which lowers the learning curve.

Also, besides minimizing the CSS overhead, it still keeps (X)HTML attributes semantic.

Flash Bookmarks is a free Flash component for integrating social bookmarking links to any website easily.

It supports the most popular sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Facebook, Google and Reddit.

The look & feel of the social bookmarking menu created with the component is totally customizable. It is possible to change:

• the icons to be displayed
• the size of the icons
• the aspect of the hint text for the icons
• details regarding the bookmarked data.

Flash Bookmarks can be both added by drag’n drops from the component panel of Flash or by code (AS3).

Icons are great design resources which help improving the interfaces we create as they can define "what words may not".

The talented team at Iconshock, a professional icon design company, will be creating small (~5 items) but focused icon sets exclusively for WebResourcesDepot readers every month.

And, to decide which icon set to be created first, the best idea is: asking WRD readers to choose it.

P.S. The poll will be open until 15 June 2009 (Monday).

Hemlock is an open-source Flash framework which offers the richness of Flash & the scalability of XMPP.

It eases the creation of real-time & multi-user applications like games, collaboration and more.

Generally, real-time applications are handled with polling where a database is queried every x seconds to get the latest updates.

With the Hemlock approach, a client registers for a message and is only contacted when a relevant one arrives. This is clearly a better method as it is much real-time & cost-effective (no unnecessary polls).

Origami Icons is a set of 15 sticker-like & beautiful icons that comes in 5 different sizes (16px, 32px, 48px, 128px, and 256px) as Windows ICO and 32-bit transparent PNG files.

It includes popular icons like chart, calendar, e-mail, search, save & more. Also, to create new ones or edit them, the Adobe Illustrator (AI) file is in the download package too.

P.S. They are free to use in both personal & commercial projects.