Category: Web 2.0

• 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 […]
• 7 March 2009

  Recessions silver lining is innovation

  Following the dot.com boom of the late 1990’s, when anyone and everybody who could code worked all hours to realise their ideas, there was a collapse and loads of people were unemployed. Prior to the collapse some people made loads of money, of course some of them then went and lost it and some people […]
• 8 January 2009

  Identity, relationships and why OAuth and OpenID matter

  Twitter hasn’t had a good start to 2009, it was hacked via a phishing scam and then there were concerns that your passwords were up for sale and that’s not a good thing; except there may be a silver lining to Twitter’s cloud because it has also reopened the password anti-pattern debate and the use of OAuth as a solution […]