Comments on: Not only are URLs special, but yours is too! http://almaer.com/blog/not-only-are-urls-special-but-yours-is-too blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ted Mielczarek http://almaer.com/blog/not-only-are-urls-special-but-yours-is-too/comment-page-1#comment-47647 Ted Mielczarek Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:14:19 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2878#comment-47647 Personally I hate it when I'm browsing the web and some site tries to convince me that what I *really* want to be doing is using their app. Why not just make your goddamn site not suck when used via a mobile web browser? Your app probably doesn't do anything that you couldn't do on a modern web page anyway. Personally I hate it when I’m browsing the web and some site tries to convince me that what I *really* want to be doing is using their app. Why not just make your goddamn site not suck when used via a mobile web browser? Your app probably doesn’t do anything that you couldn’t do on a modern web page anyway.

]]> By: Dan Moore http://almaer.com/blog/not-only-are-urls-special-but-yours-is-too/comment-page-1#comment-47628 Dan Moore Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:14:55 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2878#comment-47628 Hi Dion, Great set of posts about URLs. I can understand why local small businesses use facebook/myspace/blogspot/etc as a hosting solution--the barriers to entry are so low. But I do feel that any larger company, as well as those small businesses, will benefit by controlling their own presence. That doesn't mean you can't leverage facebook, for example, because some of the community features and targetting are much richer there, but you should continually be sending people back to sites you control. For example, Facebook likes aren't nearly as useful, and long lived, as email signups. Anyway, this may be a lesson people have to learn everytime a new platform comes along. Hi Dion,

Great set of posts about URLs. I can understand why local small businesses use facebook/myspace/blogspot/etc as a hosting solution–the barriers to entry are so low. But I do feel that any larger company, as well as those small businesses, will benefit by controlling their own presence.

That doesn’t mean you can’t leverage facebook, for example, because some of the community features and targetting are much richer there, but you should continually be sending people back to sites you control.

For example, Facebook likes aren’t nearly as useful, and long lived, as email signups. Anyway, this may be a lesson people have to learn everytime a new platform comes along.

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