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XFN and FOAF
Microformats.org
Google Webmaster guide to RDFa, Microformats, and rich snippets
Programming the Semantic Web (You have to be on-campus to read this book, or use the Berkeley library's proxy server).
Google App Engine: Getting Started (The section "Hello, World!" is a lot easier if you just use the Google App Engine Launcher.)
Linked Open Data from the New York Times
Freebase RDF service
Linked Data Ventures course at MIT with various resources

Getting Started with Google App Engine ("Introduction" and "The Development Environment" help with installation. By using the Google App Engine Launcher, we can largely skip "Hello World" and "Using the webapp Framework".)

Tutorial for SearchableModel (full-text search on App Engine)
Building scalable, complex apps on App Engine (slides from Google IO 09)
Docs on "exploding indexes"
Re: geospatial indexes, see Quadtree and Geohash Wikipedia articles, and the geomodel project for GAE

Google App Engine docs
Nick Johnson's blog (Nick Johnson works on App Engine, is a definitive expert and writes blog posts that are clear, insightful and helpful.)
StackOverflow google-app-engine (Great place to look up answers and ask questions.)