11 month ago
Linkorama : URLs are people too - Elizabeth Churchill and Ben Gross looked into this and found out that people find it easier to remember passwords than usernames, because they use the same passwords everywhere, and they end up with multiple different email accounts to handle the problem
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Delighted to hear that A&Mi at the BBC are so passionate about URLs and looking forward to seeing what they produce around them - I have to be honest, I've not been overly happy with the way that the work we started at the BBC with PIPs progressed after I left. This could drag it back on track, I suppose.
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : DecentURL - Making ugly URLs decent - Not so much a URL shortener, as a URL nicener. [via] #
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21 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tips: Prefer following links over URI construction
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tips: Prefer following links over URI construction - "Note that the client doesn't get to 'know' how to construct employee URIs from employee-ids, instead it just follows links from the employee list to each employee resource."
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24 month ago
deusx : 0xDECAFBAD - painfully metalicious - "I’m also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation." How meta is this now?
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Jakob Neilson's recommendations on URL in 1999 were pretty good even though he forecast that they would disappear within five years... - As it happens, I think URLs are becoming more important if anything - as people start to understand how fundamental they are to giving your site or service all the benefits of being truly native to the web...
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