URLs
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
In Depth
the MAD Podcast
the a16z Podcast
3 statements about URLs, every show
Shareable URLs have 'unreasonable effectiveness' in software product design
“It taught me about the, what I call now the unreasonable effectiveness of URLs. So when I give you a URL you can share, you can embed it in any system.”
Xu: QR codes gained Chinese adoption because Roman URLs are counterintuitive
“Yeah, so one of my hypotheses was that the internet's infrastructure is in English. URLs are in using Roman characters that don't really correspond to Chinese, and so a lot of even like large Chinese companies will have URLs that basically look like fxyjjj.com…”