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		djacobs on Sept 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making the URL bar useful again: Where the Breadcr... Yesterday, I wanted to show a friend a video and typed http://hulu.com/top-chef, and the show's page came up. This seemed natural and efficient to me, but my friend could not get over this "magic". REST FTW.

nanairo on Sept 15, 2010 | [–]

he he... I do that often for Wikipedia... even though I don't get why Wikipedia hasn't implemented a nicer looking URL (in particular removing the middle /wiki/). :(

pak on Sept 15, 2010 | [–]

This is how I usually browse hulu.

I love good URL design. I think hulu was pointed in this direction by its use of Rails.

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