SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. […]

(from DieSpammersDie on Tools to Make Tools)
The Problem
Because FeedMeLinks has a decent Google Page-Rank and a deliberately low barrier to entry, “link spammers” have discovered the site and are posting hundred of almost identical URLs to the site in order to promote other online properties. This disturbs users and dillutes the value of the site […]

posting immediately from anywhere, publish it now, share / edit it later
works right from your browser - no apps to download or install
click the clickwheel, press “Send Page Address”, type “add@feedmelinks.com”
(tip: save it to your addressbook so you can just type ‘add’ next time)
the page name and page URL will be filled in for you. […]

Before i knew about things like attention streams and Trac, there was CIA.
CIA is a great concept that happened almost before its time — a website for developers to stream status information into from their open source projects. CIA was like the giant train station schedule sign clicking away as a million trains, or coders, […]

Feed Me Links now allows in-page editing of your Link Names, Link URLs, and Link Privacy — no popups, delays, or page reloads. (Damn.)

Thanks to Kid Sleep for the xajax pointers, and to Les Orchard for pointing me to Behaviour.

AJAX experimenting on Feed Me Links… (you’ll need to be logged in)
This shhh is too easy…

This is probably the biggest announcement I’ve made about Feed Me Links since it became public in 2002: I’m open sourcing the project. Anyone will be able to download all the source code — roughly 18,000 lines of PHP — and run, modify, extend, or simply learn from it.
All portions of the system will be […]

I’m slightly abashed to announce this new Feed Me Links feature because it should have been done a LONG time ago — but it’s here now: …introducing clean URLs for your tags! an example is worth 1000 words:
feedmelinks.com/~jm3/dvd , as opposed to feedmelinks.com/f/2595.
This cleaner URL style (and behind the scenes code) afford some nice benefits: […]

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 […]

SQL can be a pain. it’s a declarative language, which can be cumbersome to coders used to the procedural world of programming in the large. And unlike eLisp or Perl, it tends to lack builtin, contextual documentation. The hapless application builder is left with two options: doggedly deny that actually learning SQL has any real […]