phil ringnalda

Why a good host is important in fighting spam.

Google’s AutoLink: getting to the real issue : a nice summary of the tempest from James Bennett at K5.

Google’s new weather shortcut may not be even remotely a new idea, but the execution probably hits the sweet spot of “give them what they mostly want, without a bunch of choices and clicks to get there,” unlike the competition.

You know your business blog is working when your readers leave singing.

Jonas Luster: “Today I fired my Butler.” No FUD (beyond what’s reasonable, anyway). No fallacies. No attempt to control you. That’s what we’re capable of, on a good day.

blo.gs is for sale. Sad, it was the first web service I programmed against, but it sounds like it’s been an expensive hobby for Jim, just to ensure that all weblogs, even with names like Large American Penis, could list their updates. So, who needs a couple of great weblog URLs and a database of […]

text/xml is seriously broken over HTTP : Anne sees the light, err, darkness. For extra fun, a proxy between the sender and receiver is free to transcode text/xml into any other charset, without changing the XML declaration, and without worrying about whether the receiver’s XML parser can handle Shift-JIS.

Yahoo Search and Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn : Sam whips their API charset handling into shape.

BlogMarks.net : think of it as Hot Links for everyone (because it is), or as del.icio.us with thumbnails, an easier URL to place the dots in, and more accented vowels.

IP-based query capping means you can actually distribute Yahoo API apps without needing your users to sign up for a developer’s key. Nice!