On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Simon Phipps wrote:
Would it be smart for opensolaris.org to host its own link
shortener? This would have several benefits:
* Shorter, easier links for e-mail, IRC, forums and social media
sites
* Could include statistics (like bit.ly)
* No risk of "link corrosion" since we manage the site, not an
unrelated third party
* Single place to refactor links when infrastructure is replaced
or serviced (e.g. Elaine's excellent work purging SOA links out of
the mail archives)
Interesting idea - tr.im is supposed to be open sourcing their
link-shortening engine as part of their de-commercialization.
Well, there's http://code.google.com/p/kissabe/ which is already out
there and supposedly a clone of tiny.url. I've not seen the mention of
tr.im being opensourced but it will likely be a while for that to
happen. I'll have to look and see if there's a way to limit links to
those only within our domain as I'm certainly not willing to run a
service like tiny.url or tr.im.
A domain like oso.ly would work well for this purpose.
op.en would be so much cooler - think the UK government would be
willing
to trade their .uk TLD for .en for England? (Okay, maybe not.)
I wonder if Glynn could register ope.nz... or maybe we could get
op.so in Somalia?
The TLDs are so saturated with squatters that anything even remotely
sensible has likely been taken, e.g. out of a full range of ideas I
had, only one came up free... chopchop.me. Well, and bassomatic.us and
bassomatic.me, but somehow that old SNL joke might be too old to be
appreciated. permalink.to is also available.
e.
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