http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2009/08/17/why-url-shortening-as-we-know-it-is-bad/ wrangling the Internet's wildest Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:07:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2009/08/17/why-url-shortening-as-we-know-it-is-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 Ans Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:37:04 +0000 http://blog.anselmbradford.com/?p=887#comment-1679 Yes, I'd like to devote a whole post to Twitter actually and these kind of issues. Stay tuned! Speaking of open source, one URL shortening service of note is http://kissa.be, whose source is housed at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/kissabe Yes, I’d like to devote a whole post to Twitter actually and these kind of issues. Stay tuned! Speaking of open source, one URL shortening service of note is http://kissa.be, whose source is housed at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/kissabe

]]> http://blog.anselmbradford.com/2009/08/17/why-url-shortening-as-we-know-it-is-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Jared Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:04:01 +0000 http://blog.anselmbradford.com/?p=887#comment-1647 I think about this every time I tweet using a link shortening service. I'd prefer not to use them at all, but the format of Twitter simply requires it more often than not. It seem to me that some open-source algorithm could be created to encode URLs in a more standardized way. Then a key could be created—kind of like in cryptology—where anyone with the key could later decode the short URL into its original longer form. Of course, I guess I should worry more about Twitter disappearing than the URLs in my tweets rotting. If the former happens, the latter won't matter much. I think about this every time I tweet using a link shortening service. I’d prefer not to use them at all, but the format of Twitter simply requires it more often than not. It seem to me that some open-source algorithm could be created to encode URLs in a more standardized way. Then a key could be created—kind of like in cryptology—where anyone with the key could later decode the short URL into its original longer form. Of course, I guess I should worry more about Twitter disappearing than the URLs in my tweets rotting. If the former happens, the latter won’t matter much.

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