In their usual quality style, technical publisher The Pragmatic Programmers have launched a magazine for programmers. First issue is great, and I look forward to a lot to thoughtful reads out of future issues.
This is a space that much needs attention, I think, after the failure of some of the prior print magazines for programmers. Great job!
Agile Tortoise is happy to announce the launch of blilt.us. blitl.us is primarily a URL shortening service, providing click tracking and easy access to data about your shortened URLs. Also, it currently provided Twitter posting integration.
blilt.us is designed for integration with other applications. We are working on completing and documenting the API and will provide more sample code in the future. Let us know if there’s anything you are looking for in a URL shortening service. We’re eager to hear ideas.
Typically ‘nail-on-the-head’ commentary from Seth Godin:
The purpose of the site is to tell a story or to generate some sort of action. And if the user notices the site, not the story, you’ve lost.
If you are looking to improve the impact of your web presence, you should be asking yourself what story you want to tell, not how much flash can I add, or how much lavish detailing I can apply.