As We May Think, Vannevar Bush’s legendary paper presaging hypertext, wikis, and the web, penned in 1945. Many features of his ficticious “memex” device have come to fruition on the web, but one thing I always find lacking is his concept of trails:
When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts [...]
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On URL Shorteners
URL shorteners are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame right now. They’ve been around since 2002, but became flavour of the month as soon as half of the planet decided to compress their messages into pithy 140-character microblogs, and there is money it, driving a massive amount of new players into the market, [...]
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Tags: Ajax·Cloud DB·Experiment·Im8ge·Javascript·TinyURL·URL shorteners·Web