Turns out there's no money to be made in redirecting URLs. They claim that since they don't have an inside connection at Twitter, they have no motivation to continue developing features.

And really well written, to boot. This is the future.

I have no clue if this is a previously agreed upon partnership thing or if they're treating all external links like this but it looks pretty lame.

I've been using Firefox's custom search feature for command line like functionality for years now. It's also slightly hackable for commonly used shortcuts on work projects.

Agreement with the big four labels includes an ad revenue model that will share with artists based on how often a track gets played

A blog. About typography. Of course.

I keep seeing Twitter bubbling under the surface, giving it a go to see what all the hype is about

Including when they got hacked a while back

NYT looks at the (free) news online [via /.]

Microsoft does Bloglines, but with search. Win/IE only (duh)

A-freaking-men

For a cool $55k, you could grab this highly visible domain. Also, once this turns into a pr0n|casino|onlinemeds site, I'm gonna need to find a new whatismyip.com [via linkbunnies]

Contextual search from Yahoo

We've had this for a while - it's called iChat AV [via /.]

Just when they need to start opening up their archives, they pull this shit. Dumb, dumb, DUMB.

All about using everyone's favorite new technique on how not to refresh. Yeah, I didn't understand that sentence either.

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and screen scrape [via joeweiss]

Why tags are hard [via /.]

What do you want to do with your life?

"Interesting web stuff for short attention spans" [also via Zeldman]

Open source CMS with web standards and all kinds of other goodness [via Zeldman]

Think WordPress for forums [via DaringFireball]

Interesting, but I feel like I've already got plenty of places to satiate my infoglut needs