Paul, Beth and Sean struggle to find relevant news. Summer is slow, but fortunately, our PHP-friends Derick Rethans and Ed Finkler helped us out. Big thanks to them for saving the day.

You can grab this latest episode off of their feed or just download it directly from the site.

Following the first installment in this series, here is the second part. In this part I will focus mainly on Bookmarking and News services supported by FriendFeed .

He points out some of the major bookmarking sites and the URLs for their interfaces for their users (like del.icio.us, furl, stumbleupon and news services like digg and reddit).

We have some updates regarding the Dutch PHP Conference in June (13th and 14th).

The first bits of great news surround the attendance - the conference day alone is over 95% full and the tutorial day is even more packed with only a few seats left. A pre-conference part has also been set up (see the post for the details of when and where). They've even set up a page of travel information to help you if you're looking for a way to get to the Amsterdam RAI for the two-day event.

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I have been answering a lot of email requests for how to get started with a Bebo application. Since applications can be written in any language that supports interaction with the Bebo REST API, developers have a lot of choices in how they build their application. The focus of this article will be on the "officially supported language" - PHP.

He defines the parts of the application first (the callback, canvas page, profile box, invitation and news stories). Much like the Facebook API, the Bebo system has you host the application on your own servers and use their developer libraries to interface with their systems. He makes a simple application that has a "story" published to it that shows to each visitor.

He also tosses in a method for knowing a bit more about the user - like if they've just added the application, if they're a normal user or if they've just removed it from their application list.

I spend way too much time reading blogs, surfing PHP and web development articles online. I resolve to cut back but things just sneak back into my reader somehow, and believe me dzone doesn't help. But I've came up with a way to justify all that time, I call it research.

He mentions things like the infamous CIO article, Zend's Jolt Award, comparing the Zend Framework versus PEAR and PHP releases, books and various other language-related tidbits.

Check out the post for more and keep an eye on Doug's blog for future weekly summaries.

Welcome to the new community site. We've still got a bit of finishing work to do, but I think everyone would agree that this is much better than the old site! Let us know what you think.

Rather than having their community efforts spread out over their current site, they decided on on centralized resource where people can get the latest news, check out the latest podcast and interact with fellow PHPers out there on the web.

Be sure to check it out for yourself and let them know what you think.

Just head over to the Twitter site and follow phpdeveloper to get the latest updates. It uses the Twitter Feed website to pull our feed in and push it out, so you'll get the latest updates as they come out.

• IBM Adds Zend to Value Pak, Ships ESX Server Storage Support - a summary look at the Value Pack bundle of software for the i5/OS V5R4 operating system
• Zend Puts Out New Release of Commercial-Grade PHP - the latest release of ZendCore
• Microsoft adds PHP to InfoCard support list - the addition of InfoCard support in a collaboration with Microsoft (a big push in their Hotmail email offering and other Live online services)
• Oracle beefs up PHP driver - the updates that Oracle has made to the OCI8 driver for PHP

It's official - I'm now acting as the News Editor for php|architect and I'm very excited to be working with Marco and his crew on another project. [...] The more information available to the PHP community, the better.

So feel free to send news-y bits her way (elizabeth at her domain, naramore.net) and keep an eye on the php|architect website for even more great PHP and web related news from Elizabeth.