Category Archives: Commentary

Commentary on other blogger’s blog posts.

Why URL design matters in email

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I’ve long believed email provides one of the better justifications for good URL design. Having a well designed URL structure inspires a user to have faith in a site’s URL integrity making it more likely then will email a URL … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Champions, Commentary, Email, SEO | 2 Comments

PayPal’s New API: So Close, Yet So Far

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I got an email from the PayPal Developer Network today announcing PayPal’s new “NVP” (or “Name-Value Pair“) API. Clearly they’ve learned that the complexity of SOAP is counter productive to adoption. Here’s what the email had to say about their … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Framework Developers, Leading Companies, REST, SOAP, SoapBox, Web Developers, Website Owners | 2 Comments

URLs for Multilingual Web Sites

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Another URLian has appeared: Brad Fults. Brad just added himself to our wiki and became a signatory; thanks Brad! Better yet, on his user page on our wiki he linked to his post Designing URLs for Multilingual Web Sites; execellent … Continue reading →

Posted in Champions, Commentary, International, Internet Professionals, Website Owners | 1 Comment

Bitten by the URI Opacity Axiom

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

  Jon Udel has a post today entitled Divergent citation-indexing paths. Funny that he wrote about this; it seems he and I are on such a parallel trajectory these days. For evidence, take a look at my post from last … Continue reading →

Posted in Axioms, Commentary, Internet Professionals, SoapBox, URIs | 2 Comments