Category: Twitter

• 9 June 2009

  URL shortening it’s nasty but it’s also unnecessary

  URL shortening is just wrong and it’s not just me that thinks so Joshua Schachter thinks so too and Simon Willison has a partial solution. The reason various folk are worried about URL shortening and think that it’s largely evil is because it breaks the web. URLs need to be persistent and that’s not so…
• 22 April 2009

  Interesting stuff from around the web 2009-04-22

  The open web Does OpenID need to be hard? [factoryjoe.com] Chris considers “the big fat stinking elephant in the room: OpenID usability and the paradox of choice” as usual it’s a good read. I wonder whether restricting the OpenID providers displayed based on visited link would help? i.e. hide those that haven’t been visited? It…
• 20 March 2009

  Interesting stuff from around the web 2009-03-20

  Semantic web news Linked Data? Web of Data? Semantic Web? WTF? [Tom Heath] “Think about HTML documents; when people started weaving these together with hyperlinks we got a Web of documents. Now think about data. When people started weaving individual bits of data together with RDF triples (that expressed the relationship between these bits of…