On 05/11/2007, Tim Dobson wrote: > > Tinyurl.com isn't even that good. > http://tiny.pl gives 4 digit ids to it's links and is shorter. > Personally I prefer this. > I once did little bit of research into similar services and found quite a > few. > If you are interested, here is the total list > http://www.goaddr.com/ > http://elfurl.com/ > http://doiop.com/ > http://www.shorl.com/ > http://burl.fergcorp.com/ > http://lnk.in/ <http://lnk.in/index.php> > http://snipurl.com/ > http://tiny.pl > http://tinyurl.co.uk =at the time tinyurl.co.uk was separate from > tinyurl.com > http:// tinyurl.com <http://tinyurl.com/> > http://notlong.com/ > http://makeashorterlink.com/ <http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php> > http://www.lights.com/weblogs/shorterurls.html > http://www.shorturl.com/ > http://metamark.net/ > http://www.freecenter.com/redirect.html > http://www.2url.org/ > http://link.toolbot.com/ > http://enigo.com/shortlink > This however was about a a year and 9 months ago, so I expect this list > may have significant ommisions and errors in it, and take no responsibility > at all for the content at the end of those links. > > Now back on topic, I agree with both, I think the BBC should give "real" > urls, but have their own, "tinyurl" system as such. > Much as I really don't like them, I think MSN has a similar thing > something like : > http://www.rubbishMSsite.com?go=DFG43 > > Of course loads of sites operate these systems, and there are security > issues regarding them, for instance, letting public use a private one would > mean that phishing scams could have links to > http://redirect.ebay.com/34Fg5/ which to many would look real, especially > if they ended up at 234.453.432.12:8080 and found an EXACT replica of > ebay's site. > > I think there is some Free Software (as in Freedom for those who don't > know me), code lying around that lets you do this, which might be > interesting to look at, and useful to use, to adopt to the BBC's needs. > Certainly a better choice than what ever Microsoft is offering cheap today. > > -Tim >
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