darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

on the typing more front words - have you seen tweetshrink? http://tweetshrink.com/ - it'll shorten words like later to l8r to save characters - http://tweetdeck.com have integrated it's api into their twitter client

darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

Nice! twitter confuses me how it will convert your urls to tiny urls when you don't want to - but won't when you need it to.

darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

nice - I've been meaning to learn a bit of clojure. I hear your point on wanting to set up your own - and as you've shown it is easy to do.

darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

I thought so, and I do cache everything nicely in memcache and db.

Also it's hard or maybe even impossible? to reliably fetch arbitrary short url using javascript - exposing it as a simple json api makes this easy.

darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

Yep - looks very similar to what I've done, I hadn't seen it until a few days ago. We could do with even more similar services - to balance out the hundreds of url shrinking services.

darraghcurran

18 anni fadiscuss

Good point - what I've done is allow you to piggyback more than one lookup onto a single request. so the plugin will batch them in groups of 4. does that make sense?

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