The word today is that Google has bought Jaiku, the social/presence/messaging service that competes with Twitter and others. Here’s Google’s announcement of the news from their blog. As others have noted, it’s interesting that GOOG chose Jaiku over Twitter, which was co-founded by a guy (Evan Williams) who co-founded an earlier Google acquisition, Blogger.
Trillian for OS X
Cerulean Studios have announced an alpha version of Trillian for the Mac, which they have gone out of their way to clarify is not a port but an entirely distinct dev project. I’m not sure how relevant Trillian will be in a Mac universe that already includes Adium. It will be really hard for Cerulean to improve on Adium – and certainly Trillian for Windows is nowhere near the quality of Adium.
Unreadable URLs are bad
Scott Rosenberg takes up the case in his post, Terror of tinyurl.
From the earliest days of the Web to the present, there’s been a fundamental split between people who get the value of “human-readable URLs” and people who don’t.[…]
Today, though, we’re taking a step backwards, or at least sideways, in the cause of human readability, thanks to the growing popularity of the “tinyurl.”
I have had this discussion (arguing for human-readable URLs) with well-intentioned but clueless developers so many times it borders on the absurd. In fact, Nadia and I were just discussing it last night! Like Rosenberg, I understand why it’s important in the twitterverse, but outside of that relatively limited context, tinyurl is a user-hostile pain in the backside.
New Zealand’s Haka
Done!
I’ve pretty much completed the transfer to WordPress from Movable Type now, and it went very smoothly. WP is very nice to work with, and I chose a very well constructed base theme (if I do say so myself) to work from, which helped. The only dicey parts were a) matching the file naming format of the posts I imported with their old format generated by MT; and b) removing some links from my (old) post titles, which was causing problems.
There’s one major to-do yet: figuring out how to save myself from my idiotic post-title method (i.e., the title is actually the first few words of the post). I think I have the solution (using some advanced CSS and a quick template edit), so we’ll see.
As always, if you notice anything strange let me know. It should be a million times easier to leave comments here than it has been in the past while.
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