A back water infrastructure service of the Internet for many years URL shorteners allow you to take a long nasty long URL like http://blog.pint.com/2009/03/31/a-few-observations-about-short-url-services into something like http://tinyurl.com/cc2o48 Try it you just bounce here.
While we use these shortening services in some Internet mediums because we must it is questionable the value of the keyboard character [...]

Now that we are a day away from voting read up on our latest article on Network World.   Can the Web predict the next president?
 
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Designers and coders alike commonly overlook the importance of anchor tags and their styling on a web page. Aside from accessibility for a moment, developers often miss the visual usability of some links on a page. From main navigation to external references, links cover a wide range of behaviors and can be styled to visually [...]

If you spend a little time looking into the online literature for the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploit, you might get the impression that Web 2.0 has opened up an appalling can of security worms. In some ways this is true, but in other respects what we are seeing [...]

Last week I discussed domains a bit and in the past I have written about new URL forms such as dirty URLs. Today I present a corollary to those ideas which I dub the “flat URL.” The idea is simple, don’t bail out right away – there are some payouts to be had if [...]