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 [...]

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From: Michael Rodemer
Date: Nov 17, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: new ezio?
To: john manoogian III
We had a bunch of trouble with surface mount solder joints. The beta
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Content Portability means content with handles for users to grab — permanent URLs to easily share your content across email, IM, etc. Read more about making your content portable in Raising Well-Behaved Content, by JM3 on your way to Camp Organic…

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: [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]