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Posts from April 2009

Links: 4-13-2009

rev=canonical bookmarklet and designing shorter URLs Every site becomes a tinyURL generator, works if you can afford a small domain, not tenable long term. (categories: python bookmarks tinyurl rev=canonical urls shortener )

favikon Easy web-based favicon generator. (categories: [...]


Links: 4-12-2009

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Search: Now With 99.987% Less Suck Based on Lucene + Solr. (categories: search lucene filtering digg faceted )

scottberkun.com » Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration) It’s much more useful to [...]


Links: 4-9-2009

Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb 1. Define your object, 2. define your verbs, 3. make the objects shareable, 4. turn invitations into gifts, 5. charge the publishers, not the spectators. Also: preconditions of disruptive innovation: #1 = simpler. (categories: [...]


Links: 4-2-2009

Dive into history, 2009 edition [dive into mark] Quote: "Oh, and there was one other little thing that happened between 2000 and 2009: search stopped sucking and took over the web. Kids today may not remember, but it used to be hard to find stuff on the web. Once you [...]