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As posted on twitter…

asteris: Twitter crashes becoming really obnoxious of late; I wonder if outages are due to DDoS attacks. Reliable citizen journalism medium it’s not #

KCorax: @asteris Annoying indeed, but at least twitter feels warm. Jaiku had this kitchen/surgery feeling to it. #

KCorax is to the point. But what makes an app “feel warm”?

Panayotis misc twitter

urlB.org’s search is a great tool for site owners that want to keep an eye on shortcuts going to their site.

Now, you can subscribe to search results (RSS feed)!

Panayotis urlborg opensearch, rss, urlborg

I keep adding new features to urlB.org:
- a basic API: read the developer’s page
- the new search page lets you search for shortcuts going to a specific domain and you can see usage stats for each one.
- if you are a regular user of urlB.org, you will like the bookmarklet.

Panayotis urlborg urlborg

I have decided to make the HTTP redirects by urlb.org permanent. From now on, redirects are done with a “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” header.

What this means is that search engines (like google) will give credit (pagerank) to the target URL and not to urlb.org -fair enough, no?

Panayotis urlborg urlborg

Check out my new project: urlB.org (pronounced “URL Borg”).

It’s like tinyurl.com, rurl.com and many more services that create short URLs that are much more manageable in SMS or emails. I just want to “do it right”, I feel other services leave much to be desired.

Here are a couple of things that stand out in urlB.org:
- If you are a site owner, you can tell when a page of your site is “urlBorg-ed” by looking at your logs.
- If possible, a cached version of the page that was urlBorg-ed is kept. This is useful if the page is moved or changed and you can’t find what you linked to in the first place.

If you are a developer, have a look at the developers page.

Panayotis urlborg urlborg