Apture and Kiw.is = URL shortening with a twist – Blog

Thanks! Apture is actually really powerful and adds a lot to content (even automatically). I played with it at http://www.apture.com/create/ before implementing it into Kiwis.

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#5

Post by zacharydanger » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

Yay link-jacking?

I'll send a memo to my squad of social media engine search optimization experts.

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#6

Post by kineticac » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 9:22 PM UTC

zacharydanger wrote: post #5

Yay link-jacking? I'll send a memo to my squad of social media engine search optimization experts.

not link jacking, it's putting a message before the redirect. You're still redirected to the original page. One way to think of it is a reverse twitter, instead of a message with a link, it's a link then a message.

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#7

Post by zacharydanger » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 9:33 PM UTC

kineticac wrote: post #6

zacharydanger wrote: post #5

Yay link-jacking? I'll send a memo to my squad of social media engine search optimization experts.

not link jacking, it's putting a message before the redirect. You're still redirected to the original page. One way to think of it is a reverse twitter, instead of a message with a link, it's a link then a message.

It seems you work on Kiw.is so I'm not sure if I should even try to articulate why I find your product to be annoying.

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#8

Post by kineticac » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:14 PM UTC

zacharydanger wrote: post #7

kineticac wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not link jacking, it's putting a message before the redirect. You're still redirected to the original page. One way to think of it is a reverse twitter, instead of a message with a link, it's a link then a message.

It seems you work on Kiw.is so I'm not sure if I should even try to articulate why I find your product to be annoying.

It's unfortunate that you'd like to tell us what annoys you, rather than being constructively supportive. Hacker News is a community where hackers get together and support one another, being blunt about feedback is one. Talking about personal annoyances does not fit in to what this community is all about.

I'm thinking I'm misunderstanding you, but if you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it. If it just plain annoys you, that's fine as well. If you don't mean it personally, I won't take it that way.

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#9

Post by pclark » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:14 PM UTC

you think a 10 second holding page is good?

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#10

Post by ironkeith » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 10:47 PM UTC

My reaction to redirect pages is always the same: "What? Oh." finds and clicks the skip ad button. So I don't really understand why sites bother with them.

Does anyone know of any metrics as to what percentage of the time that "skip" link is clicked? Does anyone know of any eyeball tracking studies to see how often people look immediately top right for that link?

I just can't believe those landing pages are of much value, but then I doubt I'm a typical user.