Comments on: New URL Shortener Is Kind Of Cool, Kind Of Defeats The Point

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:27:03 +0000

I don’t think I want to have comments as part of the URL that I’m sharing.

By: Great Idea

Great Idea — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:58:44 +0000

Their website mentions an SEO product that encodes the pesky free text in your website’s URLs to binary code (so Google can read it better). They also have a Beta that converts images on your website to ASCII drawings to optimize the compression. The web will never be the same.

By: jay ingram

jay ingram — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:10:42 +0000

Here is the link again:

http://bit.ly/rQCzw

Not sure why it was removed.

By: jay ingram

jay ingram — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:08:01 +0000

The link got erased. Here it is.

http://groups.g...92343c727e6ec45

By: jay ingram

jay ingram — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:03 +0000

There is a thread related to long links as messages on twitter dev group that I was reading and how twitter destroys them with bit.ly. This is interesting idea though.

By: OoTheNigerian

OoTheNigerian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:22 +0000

MG: Bit.Ly has alway had the ability for you to customise your url e.g http://bit.ly/onepage meaning you can add any pessage at the end of your link. So it is not really new.

By: Thomas Wittek

Thomas Wittek — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:09:46 +0000

If you’re too lazy to write the comment yourself just let it be generated from the page’s title using http://longr.us/:

http://books.sl...8/1423251.shtml
=>
http://longr.us...gence-in-action

By: Anand

Anand — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:25:29 +0000

Have you profiled the Million dollar homepage as yet? pls. do it fast..

By: Den

Den — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:25:25 +0000

you can add notes as post-it and still keep the short URL: http://bit.ly/gXTY2
it is so called annotated links

By: Gabe da Silveira

Gabe da Silveira — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:54:33 +0000

I’m stunned that any developer would have any interest in creating yet another URL shortener for any reason. I mean it’s a good “Hello World” project for the web, but to actually launch these things as a product is just pathetic.

By: Gabe da Silveira

Gabe da Silveira — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:52:16 +0000

You forgot cocksucking. “stupid and lazy cocksucking liberal” I believe is what you were.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:29:01 +0000

Whats the point of a url shortening serivce that allows you to make it a long url… I don’t think I would use it very often. But nice initiative anyways!

There is a new URL shortening website targeted at twitter, called Tweep.in (www.tweep.in)

By: Rainbow Unicorn

Rainbow Unicorn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:47:41 +0000

Love it, it’s fun and silly at the same time! Just like my own url tool http://hapylink.com which makes urls happier to spread joy to those who view it.

By: Kunal Shah

Kunal Shah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:04:03 +0000

Feature is excellent….But It needs something more innovative like tracking URL as clicks getting to that URL, pageviews and more….which user have in mind.
This will help in increasing visibility of l.pr

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:01:50 +0000

I used to be a stupid and lazy liberal. I would spend most of my time each day looking to condemn people for living life the right way. But one day something happened. I was no longer cynical nor judgmental about other people who did not share my beliefs no matter how misguided my beliefs. Do you know what happened to me? I graduated from college and got a good job and I am no longer a hateful and lazy bum. What makes this all the more enjoyable is that the rich and hardworking conservatives paid for my public college education. Thank you conservatives. If you guys did not pay for my colelge there is no way I would have gone to college since most rich liberals do not give money for public education. They would rather spend it on needless political fundraisers and parties.

By: Amit Bhawani

Amit Bhawani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:25:58 +0000

even when we add a custom word its added to their url making it longer Ex : http://l.pr/a4ey/amitblog it would have been better if it worked like tinyurl!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:53:42 +0000

or with a querystring:
http://bit.ly/S...d_a_querystring

By: Casual

Casual — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:19:53 +0000

http://bit.ly/pA02A

This is a bit.ly’d version of a l.pr url (I_like_reading techcrunch), which is itself a shortened version of a su.pr url, or a tinyurl.

Maybe if we do enough of these, the Internet will implode.

By: dk

dk — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:13:14 +0000

yes, it is beta, check this
http://l.pr/about

By: BQ

BQ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:57:45 +0000

it’s not as stupid as tweetfit.info ?
it totally defeats the purpose or url shortners

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:33:03 +0000

Seems quite pointless.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:32:01 +0000

http://f.oo/a3v.../sd8f?s=http://...

and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on…

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:27:19 +0000

which is exactly what twitter does automatically

By: Matt Hunter

Matt Hunter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:21:40 +0000

I’m launching a URL shortening service called, “.”. You can put any length of a URL into . and it simply comes out as . . Should be able to get some funding for this too.

By: JV

JV — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:19:14 +0000

This is actually a really useful tool, not for shortening URLs, but for marketing people. One of the very few actually effective SEO techniques is to put keywords in the URL, and this allows users to do that nicely.