SHUURL | Making Safer Short URL's
http://shuurl.com/index.php

Shuurl is a free service that offers safe shortl urls

comme bit.ly et d'autres

Interesting opinion piece on the hazards of link shortening services - inserts an unreliable middleman in the standard web transaction.

All good points in here.

"We need to prepare for the day when N of the URL shorteners go out of business. When that happens a large part of the web will die. It will not be a good day." - Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/03/joshIsRightUrlShortenersAr.html

Why URL shorterners are bad for the Internet.

tini.us - create tini urls

RT @phaoloo: http://tinyurl.com/cem5b7 <- my dickens URL http://tinyurl.com/dl2xgj [from http://twitter.com/mfubib/statuses/1667802314]

using own name in url

Facebook | Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames

RT @michelletripp: It's official: Facebook vanity URLs announced. Set your alarm clocks. These babies will go fast! http://ow.ly/dalI [from http://twitter.com/mikkokiviniemi/statuses/2100046951]

Facebook is adding usernames...finally! http://bit.ly/xlFEG [from http://twitter.com/AdamPieniazek/statuses/2098524709]

"From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook. The one place, though, where your identity wasn't reflected was in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." That soon will change. We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future."

"RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative."

"url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative."

A URL-shortening bookmarklet that looks for a canonical shortened URL (for example, a http://flic.kr link for a Flickr photo, or a gsfn.us link for Get Satisfaction) and returns it, instead of using a third-party service.

RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.

URL shorteners, such as bit.lybit.ly and tinyurl, are services that help take longer URLs (which can be over a hundred characters long) and transform them into

predict that there will be a day when every domain has URL shortening capabilities,

RT @mashable: 5 Reasons Why URL Shorteners Are Useful (please RT!) - http://bit.ly/3p0jZ0 [from http://twitter.com/chipriley/statuses/1460752003]

SEO topline

One topic that seems simple but that generates a ton of questions here on SEOmoz is URLs. I've created a 1-page sheet all about the URL and how to optimize it.

URLs: How to construct them, how to optimize them, what the pieces are, etc. In the spirit of great SEOmoz cheat sheets like Danny's web developer cheat sheet, I've decided to put together a 1-page guide to all things URL

Anatomy of A URL http://bit.ly/2x0FoF [from http://twitter.com/inti/statuses/4683499911]

Bookmarklet that will 1st check canonical, if there is no shortURL, then it will create one using TinyURL

from simon willison's weblog.

A bookmarklet to extract rev="canonical" links from pages. I only use a few sites that support this at the moment (notably Flickr), but it's quite handy.

django-shorturls

\(?\bhttp://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_()|]

Handy regex to extract URLs in text (break when followed by paren, includes https) "\(?\bhttps?://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_(|] "

URLs are simple things. Or so you'd think. Let's say you wanted to detect an URL in a block of text and convert it into a bona fide hyperlink. No problem, right?

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