Monthly Archives: December 2007

what makes an app “feel warm”?

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 … read more →

urlB.org: subsrcibe to search results

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)!

urlb.org news

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. – … read more →

urlB.org 301 redirects

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 … read more →

urlB.org

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 … read more →