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”?

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)!

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.

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?

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.