X-Ray Vision - Deep Linking into Flash with Google Sitemaps, Part I
(Apologies in advance for the use of the phrase “deep-linking.” -ed.)
Findability in Google is a Good Thing.
More and more, Google is how we find everything on the web: maps, phone numbers, deals, and obviously, websites.
But people who make Flash sites have a problem — Flash content is opaque to Google. Google only reads and searches […]
About JM3
Besides his full-time role as Swami, John Manoogian III is the managing member of JM3 LLC, a digital consultancy (AKA insultancy). John is a former Creative Director in charge of Experience Design and Engineering Director in charge of Interface Engineering for Organic Inc, where he worked across six offices and three countries managing developers and […]
REST: The tools you were given
Wake up.
To describe a web service as REST-ful doesn’t mean it’s sleepy. It means the service was built using well understood, easily available materials — namely, the stuff of HTTP. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. A REST-ful web service uses the basic building blocks of HTTP (URLs + GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) instead of inventing lots of […]
“…Web 2.0?” (You’re kidding, right?)
Exhibit 1
Thomas Fuchs’ Script.aculo.us: “…provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style.” (emphasis mine)
Exhibit 2
Sam Stephenson’s Prototype JavaScript library - “…is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 developers everywhere.” (emphasis mine)
And people bitched about the name AJAX?
J.J. […]
Extending Sage
The RSS reader Sage needs a web-hacker’s toolbar: a contextual menu or bundle of icons for the usual Edit This / Mail This / Link This functions which info-vores love. Sage currently supports technorati (something i’ve never been excited about); in place of the tech*rati bubble, why not a Mail This button? And an Add […]
AFS-style ACLs for Web Services?
Am I the only one who wants AFS-style ACLs and PTS groups for web services like Flickr, Feed Me Links, etc.?
(Or am I just the only one who remembers what ACLs and PTS groups are? :-)
PTS groups are ad-hoc, user-defined permissions groups, which users can create on the fly without intervention from a sysadmin. PTS […]