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Is elfURL more Web 2.0 than TinyURL?
On a whim we had a coder spend a few hours creating a URL redirection tool that would do more than TinyURL. From my perspective TinyURL is a great idea. If you have a long URL you just go to tinyurl and the tool will create a short URL for you. This allows you to email links without fear that the link will be broken by the email client. I decided we could extend upon this idea with some Web 2.0 features with a service called elfURL. Here is what I came up with:
- elfURL should shrink giant URLs.
- elfURL should provide statistics on the number of times the elfURL has been clicked.
- elfURL should deliver those statistics via RSS.
- elfURL should automatically create delicious tags for the links.
- elfURL should automatically create Rel-Tags for the links as well.
Since July (when we launched elfURL) we have only had 12,894 visitors to the site and created only 688 links. I think TinyURL has created 11,000,000 links. Wonder what we are doing wrong? Also, we created an elfURL Konfabulator widget, but have not released it due to lackluster demand for the free service. Comments/thoughts would be appreciated.
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I just blogged about this on Weblogs Work, but I thought I would reblog here. On a whim we had a coder spend a few hour [...]
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[...] Ever use elfURL? The Web 2.0 way to shorten URLs.
I just blogged about this on Weblogs Work, but I thought I would reblog here. On a whim we had a coder spend a few hour [...]
Pingback by Texas Venture Capital Blog » Blog Archive » Ever use elfURL? The Web 2.0 way to shorten URLs. — September 29, 2005 @ 12:25 am
Stats are a great feature and you ought make more of this…it’s the differentiator.
And I might be stoopid, but I was confused about the delicious tags feature…not sure what the point is.
Comment by Charles — September 29, 2005 @ 5:47 am
Stats are a great feature and you ought make more of this…it’s the differentiator.
And I might be stoopid, but I was confused about the delicious tags feature…not sure what the point is.
Comment by Charles — September 29, 2005 @ 5:47 am
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btw
layout tables is so web 1.0
Comment by Michael Holmgren — September 29, 2005 @ 1:25 pm
btw
layout tables is so web 1.0
Comment by Michael Holmgren — September 29, 2005 @ 1:25 pm
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i’ve founded another website thats does the samething
http://r6k.net/
Comment by jhony — March 11, 2006 @ 1:16 am
i’ve founded another website thats does the samething
http://r6k.net/
Comment by jhony — March 11, 2006 @ 1:16 am
*applauds*
Comment by Max Garrah — April 21, 2007 @ 11:41 am
*applauds*
Comment by Max Garrah — April 21, 2007 @ 11:41 am