[Open-Legislation] open link shortener

Sun Jan 16 10:19:31 UTC 2011

Have you seen Evan Prodromou's ur1.ca?

http://ur1.ca/

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Stefan Sels <stefan at sels.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> just an idea that is loosely related. I use twitter a bit and as you are
> limited by the 140 chars from the texting age, i wonder if there is an open
> link shortener.
>
> That would be nice to shorten up statistic links as well, they easily get
> messy if you use parameters within the URI (GET/URL encoded).
>
> If not, there should be one. Simple to use, with optional statistics.
> Because I don't see why that data should be given to Google, Facebook and
> some other venture capital burning US companys.
>
> It is in fact simple. A php/sqlite/xml solution would be ultra portable. A
> .onion service would be optional.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
> Greetings,
>  Stefan
>
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