Some technologies take things down a notch. For instance TinyPaste, a service obviously built with Twitter in mind that lets you link to ramblings in excess of the regular 140 character limit.
Just like TinyURL and other URL shortening services, TinyPaste produces a short address that you can enter into microblogging and IM services with caps on message lengths. But instead of directing users to a regular webpage, a TinyPaste’s URL sends its clickers to a simple page displaying the poster’s message.
Who would use this? Perhaps those who don’t maintain blogs but who still want to expound on their thoughts from time to time. It’s common practice for bloggers to adopt Twitter as a marketing tool that drives traffic back to their sites. This could start a reverse trend of sorts, one that introduces tweeters to the art of blogging. Or maybe I’m just extracting too much.
In any case, TinyPaste also comes with a Firefox extension for when you want to pass along a clip of text you found on the web. The service and plugin come from the same guys who brought you ControlC.
omg this is so epic!
did you see http://www.copytaste.com ??
http://www.copy...ste.com/bd578sp
http://www.copy...ste.com/3f5fdej
so epic
seems like simple and easy , i just tried it… It just take not more than 4 second to paste and submit…
However anyone can change this ???
i.e. if i have put some text here http://tinypaste.com/60015 Can anyone in world change this ?
I think this may be not good….
Still looks cool, simple idea !
-Raxit
I have digg more, if i change text is generate different URL. and they do have FFox plugin.
Cool
-Raxit
The FireFox extension is cool
Have you seen Twitzer on http://shorttext.com ?
Does the exact same thing and much more. You can even fetch the text back from shorttext to the Twitter page.
http://pastie.org — been there, done that
It’s simple and seems useful as well.
Especially the Firefox plugin….it adds to the beauty of this service
@Amy-
“Keep it simple stupid” Comes to mind.
If a user desires that much flexibility, he will likely just setup his/her own blog.
@Justin W
Pastie is really for code, not conversations // Chat // etc..
It’s not new
http://rafb.net/paste/ exists for monthes
Wow, this is really cool, wonder how much worthless bandwith will be taken up though, lol.
http://easysumm...y.blogspot.com/
This reminds me of http://pastoid.com, which does normal URL shortening and pastes.
It’s a pastebin.. There are tons of them. There’s even a wikipedia page about them: http://en.wikip...g/wiki/Pastebin
Programmers use them to share little snippets of code that aren’t important enough (or transient) to put on their blog/wiki/etc.
interesting to see so many like-minded services for sharing code
That is why TinyPaste is good (and different) – It doesn’t revolve around the sharing of code, so users don’t have to choose “what programming language” their paste is in.
TinyPaste is all about sharing articles, Conversations, etc..
-Not about debugging a javascript error.
I have to agree with Amy. http://shortext.com is a good service around since along time.
@Dan It is a simple service with addons which the power user can use like the firefox plugin similar to tiny paste http://www.shor.../extension.aspx
Their twitter addon is here http://www.shor...om/twitzer.aspx
OK but why? I don’t buy the suggestions above.
Finally, someone cracks open the lucrative pastebin market.
This could be big in India.
+1
no wait…. +18
i guess the crunch missed venturebeats piece on http://www.linkbee.com?? seems much more epic to me then tinypaste?
No privacy statement, no about page, no nothing.
Otherwise: combined with Twitter can be used as kind of a tumblr blog reduced to the max…
@maol
The link to that stuff is on the bottom of the extension page.
http://tinypaste.com/other.php
As usual, it makes me think – dammit, why didn’t I think of that first?
The only thing is that I hope that this company is stable and exists for a while. There are many url redirection services because it is so easy for anyone who knows how to install a script to host one on their own site.
But so many come and go which is why I only trust tinyurl.
Hopefully tinypaste will do the same. Hmm…..maybe there’ll be a run now on domain names starting with “tiny”?!!
Joe
The web: Definitively swarmed by stupid people. Now make tinybrain.com to upload their brains too.
What is the technology exactly here?
So this is a pastebin. Haven’t these things existed for quite some time now? I use the Ubuntu Pastebin all the time.
Anyone can build thie easily. Very soon someone will build a Joomla and Drupal extension for it and it will be part of every single social networking site.
Small But useful service.
Rajeev Vahisht
http://tekno-world.blogpot.com
would it be useful for spamers? would it increase spam
This makes sense on face value – but it begs the question about the larger usefullness of Twitter.
Twitter was supposed to be used for short, simple messages between friends. Now, people are trying to shoehorn in longer messages into their Twitter posts.
Does this provide any value to the Twitter community? If I wanted to read a longer text, I would read a blog post, article, comment, etc.
It seems like everyone is so eager to try to build a new application or business that sits on Twitter- but you end up seeing lots of round pegs being shoved into square holes.
On the one hand, I appreciate that people are trying to be innovative and do new things. But, on the other, I worry that too many people have “Twitter-mania” and are building applications just because Twitter is the latest fad.
i can’t believe a techblog is just finding out about a pastebin.. I could probably like 100 of these in this comment. I have been using these for 5-6 years
why is this a news article? These have been around for years, and take less than a day to develop.
try to paste on irc anything over 2 lines, they will send you to *paste*.com, it’s happening from years
Here is the source code.
If you want to make your own tiny paste, you just add some CSS
http://pastebin...pastebin.tar.gz
All of these web 2.0 websites are actually web 1.0 websites with CSS and a little bit of javascript.
What I love about this is the solitary ad displayed in the screenshot:
“Paste
A huge selection of Paste items”
Yep, really relevant
I can see the value in this, especially for the Twitter user who doesn’t have a blog.
However, I still like the challenge of keeping my tweet within the 140 char limit… this takes that challenge away.
Furthermore, I barely have enough time to read all the tweets I should, much less click over to read about someone’s rant all the time, just because they need a few more chars :p
Jason Alba
CEO – <a href=”http://www.JibberJobber.com”JibberJobber.com
Twordy does something like this too: http://twordy.com/
I just signed up to http://www.linkbee.com, it’s pretty good, looks promising.
Thanks for the heads up.
JJ
What’s up with all these so-called “new add-on services” for Twitter?! You know twitter will be dead in a couple of years – with cell phones doing 3G all over the world, and with unlimited Internet (data) access the 140 word SMS is heading to the cesspool!
Come on, do something that lasts!
@1 : I get ur sarcasm! lol! What is so new about this service? Pastebin!! Like its been said by readers before me… nothing new… just throw in a firefox extension… maybe they have improved upon the usability factor.
Not a rubbish post I would say. But when you write about a service which is being offered by others, and that too for almost more than half a decade, you must atleast research and include comparisons (or maybe just names). You make it sound like they did something totally original.
http://tinypaste.com/aa397
http://tinypaste.com/47b36
Wow. This is really worthy of TechCrunch? I could build this in all of three minutes.
web 2.piggyback
where are the real innovation
This is a really helpful tool.. Will use in Twitter
The way the script functions is crazy… for instance you post a link on tinyurl and if it sense someone has already generated it before it gives you that URL and not create a new one.
You post some content and you get a url to view, why is someone viewing allowed to edit it? And why is the submit button listed at down?
Finally when you submit the same content again, it creates a new url and not the existing one which already points to the same content!
Sounds confusing? Thats how the service sounds for me!!
I liked what #33 has said… “All of these web 2.0 websites are actually web 1.0 websites with CSS and a little bit of javascript.” – ROFL!!
i’ll stick with http://textsnip.com
amazing small smart
KS
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