Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi.com, and specializes in backend systems development.
Nobody wants to be presented with a signup form when trying out a new web service. Even though in recent years many websites have trimmed down their signup forms to make them easier to complete, I think we can do better.
A typical signup form these days consists of asking for your email address and creating a password. Some will also request you create a username, or ask for your real name.
People will... 
Tantek Çelik has been using his Falcon project to create short-form and long-form content on his site, and syndicate it out to Twitter. Falcon is a personal publishing (tweeting, blogging, realtime syndicating) web application created in the true spirit of the Indie Web.
When syndicating content to other sites, a good practice is to include a link back to the original content. This has the effect of...
