Monthly Archives: February 2008

urlborg.xml (video)

On the urlborg.xml front, a lot has been going on during the last days. A new interface, documentation, etc. Check out urlBorg developers blog for more.

the next version of eyetv3 may support XMLTV

I recently had the chance to get my hands on a beta version of elgato eyetv (v3.0.1b31). The cool thing about it? It will read TV listings from XMLTV files! XMLTV is very important for users that live in areas … read more →

facebook photos not private?

I just noticed: If you know the URL of a photo in facebook, you don’t have to have permissions to see it! You don’t even have to log in to facebook! Check out, one of mine. Is this a privacy … read more →

urlBorg developers blog, prologue theme and twitter

I set up a separate blog, blog.urlborg.com where I will post news about urlBorg. I chose the Prologue wordpress theme that resembles twitter a lot in look and feel. I also installed Twitter Tools and set it up to update … read more →

checking your web server logs for urlB.org links

If you are a site owner, you probably like knowing how your content is used, even if this is just an incoming link. One of the nice features of urlB.org is that you can easily tell which urls of your … read more →

eating my own dogfood

I’ve started rewriting the urlB.org front end using the public API. It works, and soon the API will give developers even more functionality. I want developers to use urlB.org as a backend service for their apps.

urlBorg as OS X system-wide service

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using urlB.org API from PHP

If you are interested to use the urlB.org API from within PHP, here is a simple wrapper. First download urlborg.php (and, of course, make sure you have your API key). Now, creating short URLs and getting info about them is … read more →

urlB.org updates (API, etc)

urlB.org updates for 2008-02-01: API calls “create”, “info” will return target url mime type and size urlkeys are unique for each url (and API key). If you are using the web interface, this means that next time someone submits the … read more →