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Simon WoodDelicious buys Trunkly link shortener: http://t.co/b59lnlrN
Will @joshu "rip off his arm and club them with it"? http://t.co/TNO0Ufrc
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The transit's main problem with these systems is that a link that used to be transparent is now opaque and requires a lookup operation.
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Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen
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Instead it's been replaced by the SMS-oriented 140 character constraints of sites like Twitter. (
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view metrics on how far it's spread and how many clicks it's gotten
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With a shortening service, you're adding something that acts like a third DNS resolver
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The clicker can't even tell by hovering where a link will take them, which is bad form.
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ad networks, link shortening services could track a user's behavior across many domains. That makes the paranoid among us uncomfortable.
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A variety of greasemonkey scripts resolve shortened URLs and replace them inline.
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From my past experience with Delicious, I know that a huge proportion of shortened links are just a disguise for spam, so examining the expanded URL is a necessary step.
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We hope the shortener never decides to add interstitials or otherwise "monetize" the link with ads, but we have no guarantee.
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For these reasons, I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. But what can be done to improve the situation?
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The most likely, of course, is that we don't do anything and that the great linkrot apocalypse causes all of modern culture to dissapear in a puff of smoke. Hopefully.
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John EckmanThe cassandra cry on url shorteners and the dangers they pose to web infrastructure
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Henning von VogelsangJoshua Shachter on URL shorteners
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Gabriela GrosseckAside from the raw utility of allowing URLs to fit within a Twitter message, newer services add several interesting bits of functionality. The most important of these is that let the linker turn any link into THEIR link, and view metrics on how far it's s
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Pauli SystemsVery interesting and compehensive discussion on Url Shorteners. If you really need to use them, choose carfully.
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Do URL shortening services link with integrity?
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S JonesGood rundown of why URL shorteners (tinyurl,etc.) are evil (mostly).
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12 Apr 09
Martin Stabe"There are three other parties in the ecosystem of a link: the publisher (the site the link points to), the transit (places where that shortened link is used, such as Twitter or Typepad), and the clicker (the person who ultimately follows the shortened li
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Greg LinchInteresting. Still pondering this. From the post: "So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us." (via Scott Karp
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barb dybwadSo there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.
The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher's DNS server, and the publisher's website. With a shortening service, you're adding something that acts like a third DNS resolver, except one that is assembled out of unvetted PHP and MySQL, without the benevolent oversight of luminaries like Dan Kaminsky and St. Postel. -
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Tama Leaver"... URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us. The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher's DNS server, and the pub
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benpjohnsonThe publisher's problems are milder. It's possible that the redirection steps steals search juice — I don't know how search engines handle these kinds of redirects. It certainly makes it harder to track down links to the published site if the publisher ev
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06 Apr 09
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Victor BargerPotential problems with the increasing use of URL shorteners such as tinyurl and bit.ly
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Simon G"The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher's DNS server, and the publisher's website. With a shortening service, yo
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04 Apr 09
Colleen WainwrightBecause I am a dumbass at the head of a curve of a lot of other dumbasses, I feel it's incumbent upon me to bookmark this. *I* didn't know; this is like me using plastic water bottles for years, marveling over their utility, while slowly choking the earth
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viniciusjlIn this article tripwire magazine provides a Massive CSS Toolbox giving you access to a really large collection of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc.
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ken ."Economics and entropy dictate that most of these domains will fall into spammer hands eventually"
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A variety of greasemonkey scripts resolve shortened URLs and replace them inline.
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Rekha Murthyeye opening
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03 Apr 09
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Gordon RossFor these reasons, I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. But what can be done to improve the situation?
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