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1. We will renounce all ownership interest in the tr.im domain name and donate it to the community. We will work out the legalities of this over the coming weeks, but it will ensure no one is ever able to hijack tr.im URLs in the future. They will always exist, period. Everyone can use tr.im with confidence.2. We will release the source code used to implement tr.im for anyone to use, help develop, or privately extend as they like. We will release it under the MIT open-source license. It is our sincere hope that every URL shortener becomes as good or better than tr.im, or can learn from our architecture and feature set.
3. tr.im will offer all link-map data associated with tr.im URLs to anyone that wants it in real-time. This will involve a variety of time-based snapshots of aggregated destination URLs, the number of tr.im URLs created for any given destination URL, and aggregate click data.
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You're not going put this on a business card. If you do you're a dumbass
You're not going to put this in correspondence to clients, either existing or potential. If you do you're a dumbass.
What is the value of this anyway?
A good graphic should be introduced here.. something along the lines of the average internet users attention span being 3.4 seconds contrasted against the time it took to read an average book 40 years ago.
Some interesting correlating data could be pulled from that as well...
For example, it's to help shorten all those huge-long-urls-that-many-sites-generate-and-break-up-easily-in-e-mails.htm
No, it's not just for twitter, it has been around for a long time before twitter.
For example, it's to help shorten all those huge-long-urls-that-many-sites-generate-and-break-up-easily-in-e-mails.htm
Don't want a long URL? Don't make one then.
Kinda seems like a no-brainer to me.
Don't want a long URL? Don't make one then.
People still make the incredibly long URL's because search engines are still using the URL's for keywords. I don't think this is fair at all and creates a ton of domain name spam but that's the way it is.
No, it's not just for twitter, it has been around for a long time before twitter.
Right, but it wasn't used on a huge scale before Twitter, because of how pointless it is.
My bad.
Well I vote we just ban all URL shorteners. I vote we ban twitter and all the twits that like it as well.
Oh.. BTW.. I skipped breakfast this morning. Just went for coffee instead. My back hurts.
That's a very cleverly crafted tweet there.
...but it wasn't used on a huge scale before Twitter
Perhaps you hadn't, but I have. It saved many an e-mail newsletter from turning into a mess.
But, I can see the argument against their use, and that has to be primarily from a security standpoint. Clicking such a url without care or attention is going to get lots of people into trouble.
e-mail newsletter
If I'm security conscious enough to have plain-text email, I will not click 'hidden' links.
Otherwise [url=http://www.example.com/TrendyTopic/news/20090819/KeywordStuffFolder/Really-Long-Title]Hyperlinks[/url] work fine.
That wont encode. Mods, any help?
