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Blist is an interesting cross between a spreadsheet application and an interface to a proper database. The goal (I believe) is to allow mere mortals to create and share simple databases on the Web.

Brief review of Data and Reality by William Kent. This book was written in 1978, but is still remarkably relevant in many ways.

Brief review of Emotional Design. Donald Norman uses this book to expand a bit on the well-known The Design of Everyday Things. In particular, the new book discusses some of the non-rational aspects of design that the previous book ignores.

Brief review of Information Visualization by Colin Ware. This is a textbook with a great amount of detail on the physics, biology and psychology behind visual perception.

Here are some notes on the book Producing Open Source Software. The book does an excellent job of explaining how open source projects work and how they deal with typical problems.

Brief review of Information Dashboard Design : The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few.