links for 2009-11-22
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TinyURL and other like services solved a problem brought on by the advent of micro-blogging—limited message length. They do this by taking (sometimes incredibly long) URLs and creating a small compact one that redirects to the original.
Solving one problem, though, created another one: obfuscation. There's no way to tell (for sure) where a shortened link goes by just looking at it. This is bad for users.
To help with the situation many URL shortening services provide some sort of "preview" feature that lets you see where a link will take you before actually going there. But, yet again, this creates another problem. With so many URL shortening services, each with their own way of previewing URLs, it would be troublesome for developers to try and support a preview feature for all the services. This is where LongURL comes in: it provides a standard API for multiple URL shortening services.
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Appends an expand link next to shortened URLs. The expand link will replace the shortened link with the final destination retrieved using LongURL.org.
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Display a growl notification for Facebook inbox and notifications when using Fluid.
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Cloudant’s provides professional hosting of CouchDB in the cloud. It is currently in private beta.
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This is the project page for the CSS Framework Atatonic. Atatonic is meant to make your web—life easier and is created to provide a stable grid and solid typography. Read more »(tags: css frameworks)
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Tool for use in your scripts to allow for dead simple use of the Growl notification program.