Here is a rather extensive list of web 2.0 links. Some of these applications or services can be used to help grow your business, some can be used to make daily tasks easier and some, well, some are just useless.

If you’re trying to get up to speed on HTML in a hurry, a few hours on HTML playground will definitely help to get you there. It lets you learn by doing, and it’s also is a great reference source for those of you that already have the basics down pat.

Need a quick way to help choose effective color combinations? Check out Adobe’s newest tool, Kule. For the particularly color-challenged, you can use it for all sorts of color related decisions in your life,?like choosing the right tie, paint or drapes.

The Justice Department has ruled that Google’s complaint regarding the default settings for the search box in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7?do not violate their antitrust agreement with federal and state governments. Google claimed that the default settings in Internet Explorer favoring MSN Search would give Microsoft an unfair advantage. Ironically, this is exactly what Firefox?does for Google in their browser’s search box.

We’ve been using the beta version of IE7 here for a while, and while it offers a lot of features that none of the other browsers out there offer, the current beta does not live up to the reputation that Microsoft execs have built up for it?? especially in terms of it’s utilization of RSS. The new browser has made up for a lot of previous shortcomings, but I’m a bit disappointed in the way that RSS ended up being implemented. It seems to be more of an afterthought than anything.