Code, Strings, and Keys

At least you had to pony up a few bucks per domain name back then.  Now there's Twitter squatting.  It's fairly predictable, really…  Every single letter TwitID is taken.  Common surnames…  taken.  Common words…  taken.  Apparently, you don't even need to use a legitimate or at least legitimately unique e-mail address to do it.

A question via e-mail: I stumbled upon your blog: http://developernotes.thomaspowell.comWhat I noticed – and it's something that I wanted also – is that your blogpages are all ending in .php, even your individual blogpost pages (http://developernotes.thomaspowell.com/2008/10/remember-milk-is-on-twitter.php) How do you do that in settings? I can only get the index page to end as PHP. The…

Yahoo Introduces Social Developer Platform "3 elements": Yahoo Social Platform, a set of REST-based social application programming interfaces (APIs) for utilizing social data related to Profiles, Connections, Updates, Contacts, and Status. Yahoo Query Language, a new Web service API for accessing other Web services using a SQL-style query language, rather than a lower-level programming code.…