Way back in 2007, Doc Searls turned me on to this quote: Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.…

We certainly had our share of shortURL discussion and implementations a few years back and the topic was well covered including some nice work by Dave Winer and Joe Moreno to do an Amazon S3 based solution to provide portability.…

If you are in the news business you are likely thinking about location based services and geo-content in general. In my role as a developer at Digital First Media, it is an especially important topic as we try to build…