URL Shortening (Was: [Wylug-discuss] Extreme Programming Clubthis Thursday at 7.00pm at the Victoria Hotel)

[David Turner]

I shall certainly take on board the whole small is beautiful thing.

I remember an interesting article in The Hackers Quarterly
(www.2600.com) about how you can use url shortening services to send
files across the internet. Basically you copy your file into the
clipboard, and then paste it into the url shortening service, get the
short url, and use that for distributing your files around. Not sure if
it would work with BattlestarGallacticas03e01.avi though.

So there is a little test of the google fu of the wylugers... Can you
find a link to that article?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk 
>[mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Smylers
>Sent: 12 September 2007 16:36
>To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: URL Shortening (Was: [Wylug-discuss] Extreme 
>Programming Clubthis Thursday at 7.00pm at the Victoria Hotel)
>
>John Hodrein writes:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, James Holden wrote:
>> 
>> > > 
>http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=LS1+5RG&da
>> > > ddr=53 
>> > > 
>.800721,-1.54963&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=17&mra=dme&sll=53.800135,-1.5497
>> > > 8&sspn
>> > > =0.004828,0.014269&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17
>> > 
>> > Argh!  You need to qurl it:
>> > 
>> > http://qurl.co.uk/v91t
>> 
>> Now I could switch from using tinyurl to using one you've 
>knocked up, 
>> but I'd really have to ask why...
>
>I like Metamark, which lets you pick the tag used at the end 
>of the URL rather than using arbitrary characters.  For 
>example, the above URL can be shortened to:
>
>  http://xrl.us/VicToDrOkells
>
>See: 
>
>  http://metamark.net/
>
>Smylers
>
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