Twitter is currently dealing with a surge in spam that appears to be related to the Gawker breach , for example. Use this as an opportunity to set more secure passwords on all of the services that you use. How to Set Secure Passwords. It also needs to be unique for each service that you use. MORE >>

He writes: If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the near future I would be filtering, collecting and sharing content for thousands of perfect strangers to read — and doing it for free — I would have responded with a pretty perplexed look. But we are solving the problem, through our aggregation. MORE >>

I used to think of APIs as some kind of magical, amazing constructs  that could only be used by people willing to write big chunks of code. But when I started using Yahoo Pipes , I noticed that other people were using APIs to gather useful data using what looked a lot like regular, ordinary URLs. Construct the URL. link]. MORE >>

Despite the independent aspect of web work, it’s typical for many of us to gather at conferences and conventions. If your primary goal is to learn, then note-taking is essential, especially if you’ll be attending lectures. This means actively listening, looking at visual aids, and paying attention to the lecture itself. MORE >>

The taxonomy becomes a standard vocabulary to which all applications must conform. They have, after all, invested considerable effort in developing their taxonomy, and now they want to get as much value out of it as possible. So how much consistency and standardization is the right amount? Folksonomies are a case in point. MORE >>