{"id":1245,"date":"2009-05-05T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2009-05-05T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:35:18","slug":"didnt-know-but-im-awesm-a-post-about-url-shorteners-gpl-and-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/didnt-know-but-im-awesm-a-post-about-url-shorteners-gpl-and-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn’t Know, But I’m Awe.sm (a Post About URL Shorteners, GPL and WordPress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've just read on TechCrunch the announcement<\/a> about awe.sm<\/a>, a service that sells custom URL shorteners (a la<\/em> TinyURL) for your own domain.<\/p>\n

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 'GamerZ' Chan<\/a> who has been running his own URL shortener on lc.sg<\/a> for a while, and that I've improved (re-using some code from my work on scr.im<\/a>) and hooked with WordPress (so, for instance, right when I'll press "Publish", my URL shortener will create a tiny link for this post, WP will store it in a custom field and broadcast it on my Twitter account<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"url-shortener-ozh\"<\/p>\n

The point of running your own URL shortener is obvious: it's leet and fun :) Moreover, it sorts of certifies that the shortened link won't be some crappy spam, as this is not a public tool. Our tool provides basic stats (number of clicks), my domain is short (ozh.in), my wife is amazed, I don't need more to be a happy man.<\/p>\n

Lester and I have been discussing about GPL'ing our URL shortener and plugin, but I was just dubious that this would interest people. Now, seeing the announcement about awe.sm, I'm changing my mind. Would this actually interest some of you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[85,354,245],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-plugins","tag-tinyurl","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}