Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...

#1

Post by jamesotron » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:07 AM UTC

Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...
s.mashd.cc

Re: Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...

#2

Post by techiferous » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:16 AM UTC

Interesting and fun.

You get to see the words before you enter the URL, which gives you some choice in matching up words to URLs. I also noticed that it lets you add the same URL twice:

http://s.mashd.cc/nonsubstantiality

http://s.mashd.cc/mispage

Re: Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...

#3

Post by memetichazard » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:27 AM UTC

What will happen when it eventually runs out of words? Or will the links expire after a certain amount of time?

Re: Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...

#4

Post by jamesotron » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:30 AM UTC

techiferous wrote: post #2

Interesting and fun. You get to see the words before you enter the URL, which gives you some choice in matching up words to URLs. I also noticed that it lets you add the same URL twice: http://s.mashd.cc/nonsubstantiality http://s.mashd.cc/mispage

Yes, it lets you use the same URL twice - bit.ly does the same. Potentially different people want to share the same link and see their own stats:

http://s.mashd.cc/stats/nonsubstantiality http://s.mashd.cc/stats/mispage

...although I see I have a but with the impact calculation :)

Re: Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...

#5

Post by jamesotron » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:34 AM UTC

memetichazard wrote: post #3

What will happen when it eventually runs out of words? Or will the links expire after a certain amount of time?

there are ~230k words. once it runs out will start randomly hyphenating two words togther. in the mean time I'm looking at using wordnik's API for word selection - apparently they have ~4M.