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data portability for URL shorteners
Yesterday, Dave Winer wrote: One easy way to lower the cost of URL-shortening is to use our own domain names in place of tinyurl.xom, bit.ly, tr.im, et al. Any one of those services could take the lead here by allowing for that. Let me map my own dom...
from now on, urlBorg requires authentication to create short URLs
I don’t like it, but I had to do it. From now on urlBorg will ask you to login if you want to create a short URL. The reason is that spammers took advantage of the URL shortening service to create short URLs they included in spam emails. As a ...
QR codes from urlBorg
If you need a QR code for a short URL created by urlBorg, just add ‘/qr’ at the end of it! Here is how it works: 1. The short URL is http://ub0.cc/43/c 2. The QR code image is http://ub0.cc/43/c/qr and you can use it like this <img sr...
IronBolt: a destop app that shortens URLs
Still in alpha, but looks great! Check out more at IronBolt homepage....
how to avoid multiple short URLs in urlBorg API
The urlBorg API will normally create a new short URL each time the ‘create’ method is called. There is a good reason for this, but many devlopers have been asking for a way to reuse already created short URLs. I just added a new option th...
drupal + urlBorg
nsyll just released the drupal urlBorg module!...
TwitVim support for urlBorg
TwitVim, a Vim plugin that allows you to post to Twitter and view Twitter timelines, has now support for urlBorg. Cool! Details at mortonfox.livejournal.com....
short URLs are gestures of attention
Nektarios is developing a drupal plugin that will make use of urlBorg. He asked me why, urlBorg creates a new short URL every time he makes an API call, even if the target URL is the same. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to get the same short URL? Is...
urlBorg vs. bit.ly
Sounds like the latest url shortener, called bit.ly, got a lot of attention. As an answer to my rant, that you have to involve an a-lister to get some attention, my good friend Nikos stepped forward and did a crash test: bit.ly vs. urlBorg. To be hon...
urlBorg + summize.com
summize.com is a search engine for twitter -and a great one! urlBorg now queries summize.com for each short URL and displays the results in the preview page. This way it is easier to guess or understand what the link is about, before going to the act...
better stats for urlBorg
urlBorg lets users see more detailed stats now. There are many ways to access the click stats: Click the “more info” link at the bottom of any “preview page” Login to your account and click the short URL on any of the “...
some great comments -thanks!
I asked urlBorg users to rate the app in the AppEngine application gallery and got some enthusiastic comments: One of the best url shortening tools - jim.hellas - May 24, 2008 UrlBorg has a very simple interface, provides personal account and hel...
urlBorg: making your life easier
urlBorg has two new features: 1. It will keep a record of all the “short URLs” you’ve created, with stats (number of clicks). This is a nice way to keep track of the URLs you’ve created but also to see how many clicks each one...
urlBorg previews (mp3, maps)
At the top of each page on urlBorg you will se a link named “account”. Click on it and login using your GMail account. You will be redirected to your urlBorg account page, where you will se the option “enable previews”. Previe...
urlBorg: why build yet another URL shortening service?
So, urlBorg has been rewritten in Python and is now hosted on Google AppEngine (make a note, the new address is urlborg.com). But why build “yet another URL shortening service”, when it’s so easy to build one? Any web developer coul...
a suggestion for efficient and scalable counters in Datastore
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to migrate urlBorg to Google AppEngine. urlBorg needs to count many things, like clicks on a short URL, etc, so I really need a scalable and efficient way to implement counters. This is not as trivial ...
AppEngine Datastore limitations
I’ve been trying to decide if moving urlBorg to Google App Engine is a good idea. The pros are obvious: scalability. There are many features I’ve wanted to implement for urlBorg but never did because I’m afraid that if it turns into...
urlborg.xml (video)
On the urlborg.xml front, a lot has been going on during the last days. A new interface, documentation, etc. Check out urlBorg developers blog for more....
urlBorg developers blog, prologue theme and twitter
I set up a separate blog, blog.urlborg.com where I will post news about urlBorg. I chose the Prologue wordpress theme that resembles twitter a lot in look and feel. I also installed Twitter Tools and set it up to update twitter.com/urlborg. I like th...
checking your web server logs for urlB.org links
If you are a site owner, you probably like knowing how your content is used, even if this is just an incoming link. One of the nice features of urlB.org is that you can easily tell which urls of your site have been “shortened” by it, just...
eating my own dogfood
I’ve started rewriting the urlB.org front end using the public API. It works, and soon the API will give developers even more functionality. I want developers to use urlB.org as a backend service for their apps....
urlBorg as OS X system-wide service
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using urlB.org API from PHP
If you are interested to use the urlB.org API from within PHP, here is a simple wrapper. First download urlborg.php (and, of course, make sure you have your API key). Now, creating short URLs and getting info about them is easy. Here is an example: ...
urlB.org updates (API, etc)
urlB.org updates for 2008-02-01: API calls “create”, “info” will return target url mime type and size urlkeys are unique for each url (and API key). If you are using the web interface, this means that next time someone submit...
urlB.org: subsrcibe to search results
urlB.org’s search is a great tool for site owners that want to keep an eye on shortcuts going to their site. Now, you can subscribe to search results (RSS feed)!...
urlb.org news
I keep adding new features to urlB.org: - a basic API: read the developer’s page - the new search page lets you search for shortcuts going to a specific domain and you can see usage stats for each one. - if you are a regular user of urlB.org, y...
urlB.org 301 redirects
I have decided to make the HTTP redirects by urlb.org permanent. From now on, redirects are done with a “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” header. What this means is that search engines (like google) will give credit (pagerank) to the targe...
urlB.org
Check out my new project: urlB.org (pronounced “URL Borg”). It’s like tinyurl.com, rurl.com and many more services that create short URLs that are much more manageable in SMS or emails. I just want to “do it right”, I fe...
