I tried shortening a vanity domain of mine, and the asian characters can roughly be translated as "produce fire from the rays of the sun and break wind". I don't think I'll market that shortcut.
9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
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Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#72Short URL's have two purposes for me: - They are easier to spell on the phone (This is not.) - I like to track the clicks (Which I can't do with this.) But, as a proof of concept, this is nice. OT: Oh, I'm turning into a real HNer with this comment.
The first concern is certainly valid, but since this is using acid state adding click tracking would be trivial.
Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I read it, you both agree that it is no good for printing on packaging, for two different reasons. Your original statement, however, gave the unspoken implication that other URL shorteners were good for printing on packaging. It was that unspoken implication that he was talking about, rather than the directly spoken statement.
>> Your original statement, however, gave the unspoken implication that other URL shorteners were good for printing on packaging That's a very good point. Interestingly, I think this has caught me out in situations previously. My observation was typing non-English characters would be too challenging on the keyboard I use, and as such provided an example where that may be evident. Having glossed over the other (more i…
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Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#74Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I created a simple url shortener[0] a while back and though I thought of this I hadn't considered people could add a '.' to the domain to get around that (so http://yl.io/1 becomes http://yl.io./1 ), which somebody was nice enough to figure out for me ;) [0] http://yl.io
Care to share the source? I like its simplicity!
HN really needs to let me know when I get replied to :)
The source is available[0], can't remember if it's any good though. :)