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TinyURL (2 posts)

WordPress 2009/06/25 1 min read

Introducing YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) and its WordPress Plugin Companion

So, if I didn't forget to upload a zip archive or to press a "Commit" button, it should be all here for you: the GPL'd URL shortener I wrote about earlier that Lester Chan and I have been using for a while now. Our URL shortener service is called YOURLS, as in Your Own URL Shortener. It's all GPL, free,…

WordPress 2009/05/05 2 min read

Didn’t Know, But I’m Awe.sm (a Post About URL Shorteners, GPL and WordPress)

I've just read on TechCrunch the announcement about awe.sm, a service that sells custom URL shorteners (a la TinyURL) for your own domain. That's funny: I've been using my own private URL shortener for about a week now (notice the "shorter link" mention at the top of this post). The script I'm using is based on something created by Lester…