[Open-Legislation] open link shortener

[stef]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:01:25AM +0100, Stefan Sels wrote:
> 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).

my own bookmarking service is planned to do also url shortening:
http://gitorious.org/tagr/tagr but that's still somewhat into the future.
basically all an url shortener does, is to store a mapping
shorturl->originalurl in a two-column db. the shortened url is usually a base
62 encoded autoincrement integer. there's lot's of those on the web. 

ur1 is a very nice alternative.

cheers,s

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