Pages Tagged “links”
Blog Posts
- End of the Blogroll
With blogrolls dropped from new installations of WordPress, it’s time to rethink the idea of global link lists on a modern blog.
- A Decade of Dead Links
It’s been a while since I cleaned out – or even looked at – the dead links on this site. Wow, are there a lot of them! But do they really matter?
- New Plugin: Nice Links for Twitter Tools
The plugin ties into Twitter Tools and cleans up cryptic links, following redirects and adding readable titles when it builds up a digest.
- Why Link Length Matters
Twitter writes that link length shouldn’t matter, but the zillions of URL shortening services out there show that, for now, it does. But why? There are two main reasons to shorten* a link: There’s a technical limit, such as SMS message length or email line width. You expect people to manually enter the URL. Right […]
- The REAL Problem with Twitter
Twitter asks its users the wrong question, and it’s outgrowing the limitations of SMS messages.
- Linking the Real and the Virtual
The WaSP Buzz’ article on a new mobile web browser test made mention of phones that can read QR Codes—one of several types of 2-D bar codes that you see on things like shipping labels. In this case, the idea is that you can point your phone’s camera at the QR code and it’ll decode […]
- Missing Links
Slashdot posted a story about a new web browser called Flock. The source was an article at BusinessWeek. Now here’s the interesting part: It’s a fairly long article about a web browser, and it mentions a few other web browsers including Firefox, Opera and IE. It also mentions websites Amazon.com and del.icio.us. But the only […]