Probably not (unless the Signals have lapsed back into some long-abandoned client-work), but lately Comcast’s Web site and billboards are looking suspiciously like slides from a DHH or Jason Fried presentation. Inspiration or imitation? You decide.
Comcast:
37Signals:
John Susser expands on the discussion revolving around DHH’s RailsConf keynote on ActiveResource, saying that natural URLs (i.e. /employees/josh) and numeric URLS (i.e. employees/13) needn’t be mutually exclusive. You could do something like employees/13/josh, which ir programatically more correct and also human/search-engine readable.
I just wanted to point out that Feedmarker has been doing this for some time, and I’m convinced it has helped in terms of search-engine visibility. For example, here’s the permanent link to a recent bookmark of mine:
http://www.feedmarker.com/id/39121/The+First+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%2C+Elvis
The number following /id/ is the unique id of the bookmark, and anything following is strictly decoration; the page will load just the same without it. But it gives humans (and spiders) reading the URL a better idea of what they’re going to find. I think