http://netvouz.com/fjordaan/tag/tinyurl?feed=rss fjordaan's bookmarks tagged "tinyurl" on Netvouz http://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/11/revcanonical/ Kellan’s rev=canonical service exposes rev=canonical links using a server-side script running on App Engine. An obvious next step is to distil that logic in to a bookmarklet. I decided to combine the rev=canonical logic with my json-tinyurl web service (also on App Engine), which allows browsers to lookup or create TinyURLs using a cross-domain JSONP request. The resulting bookmarklet will display the site’s rev=canonical link if it exists, or create and display a TinyURL link otherwise: fjordaan Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:16:36 GMT http://www.kottke.org/09/04/url-shorteners-suck After threatening as much for many months, Joshua Schachter has published a piece about how URL shorteners (TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) suck for everyone except the companies which build URL shorteners. fjordaan Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:18:49 GMT