Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi.com, and specializes in backend systems development.
OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. One of the formats allows your browser to add your site to its list of search engines, which Firefox displays in the top right corner, and Chrome uses in the address bar. Adding a small link and XML document allows your site to be added to a browser.
Many CMSs such as MediaWiki already support this natively so you might... 
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... 
cyborganthropology.com is quickly becoming the default online resource for everything relating to Cyborg Anthropology. With over 800 articles and growing daily, it’s possible to find nearly anything you can think of.
We recently registered the domain “anth.ro” to use as a URL shortener to articles on cyborganthropology.com. I suggested creating a business card such as this, which would... 
If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a lot of bookmarks saved on Delicious. If you’re not, you might know someone who does. With Delicious going offline, the question is where people are going to be taking their Delicious bookmarks? If you have a Delicious account (created after the Yahoo! acquisition), your only download option is a html download exporting to browser bookmarks. This... 