Comments on: TinyURL: Making long URL’s short http://minnov8.com/2008/07/09/tinyurl/ Minnesota Technology Innovation News & Insights Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: toobigandtoosmall http://minnov8.com/2008/07/09/tinyurl/comment-page-1/#comment-618 toobigandtoosmall Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:00:09 +0000 http://minnov8.com/?p=334#comment-618 what bothers me is that many sites, esp. news sites use gigantic urls loaded with 10 orm more digit numbers, deep directory hierarchies, and put in a whole bunch of symbols (not nessecary seperators for php and what not, I mean symbols like underscores and other garbage that isn't needed). ^ use my mobile phone a lot for web browsing, oftenn more than my PC and mine, like so many others do not have copy/paste. &nly recently did I get a mobile with a qwerty keypad but there is still a lot of characters I have to go to the menus for. what bothers me is that many sites, esp. news sites use gigantic urls loaded with 10 orm more digit numbers, deep directory hierarchies, and put in a whole bunch of symbols (not nessecary seperators for php and what not, I mean symbols like underscores and other garbage that isn’t needed). ^ use my mobile phone a lot for web browsing, oftenn more than my PC and mine, like so many others do not have copy/paste. &nly recently did I get a mobile with a qwerty keypad but there is still a lot of characters I have to go to the menus for.

]]> By: @malbiniak http://minnov8.com/2008/07/09/tinyurl/comment-page-1/#comment-212 @malbiniak Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:22:24 +0000 http://minnov8.com/?p=334#comment-212 first, no idea that tinyurl is a MN-based startup. friggen awesome, +1 silicon prairie (re: minnebar). second, i _think_ http://bit.ly is aiming to resolve the redundancy point. third, dependency on these services isn't inherently bad, but i'm not sure that direct accusation is being made. as a site publisher, i'm not particularly concerned with how the visitor makes it to my endpoint, so long as they do. redundancy aside, we can still trackback the ref's, and people do make it (mostly) from point a to b. in conclusion: yes. first, no idea that tinyurl is a MN-based startup. friggen awesome, +1 silicon prairie (re: minnebar).

second, i _think_ http://bit.ly is aiming to resolve the redundancy point.

third, dependency on these services isn’t inherently bad, but i’m not sure that direct accusation is being made. as a site publisher, i’m not particularly concerned with how the visitor makes it to my endpoint, so long as they do. redundancy aside, we can still trackback the ref’s, and people do make it (mostly) from point a to b.

in conclusion: yes.

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