I copy you, you copy me
At FON Labs we built FON Get Simple or Fon.gs, that like Tinyurl allows you to make a long URL into a short address, but makes it also easy to remember, since you can choose your own address like www.fon.gs/empirestate (while tinyurl used to give you meaningless characters as an address). Recently Tinyurl released the same feature, allowing their users to choose a “custom alias” for their links. I guess we’re even.
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Posted by Carlos Andrade - July 10, 2008 3:52 am - #
All sort of “url shortening web sites” allow that. See http://smallr.net or http://bit.ly. All of them with better APIs than fon.gs
You all copy yourselfs would be more accurate.
Posted by Timo Heuer - July 10, 2008 8:49 am - #
I still keep using fon.gs
Posted by Raul - July 10, 2008 1:58 pm - #
You could still be one step ahead of them by allowing the ability to edit where the URL points to, a very useful feature. So you can create http://fon.gs/martin and change where it points to in the future, or fix it if you have made a mistake. Very easy to implement by just adding a custom pw. field. Cheers.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - July 14, 2008 2:37 pm - #
Thanks Raul
Posted by David Stone - August 12, 2008 5:19 pm - #
We’ve got a few easter eggs on http://icanhaz.com that allow us to have more namespace (as such).. a free url to anyone who finds one