Longer Urls please!

Darragh Curran

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Dec 10, 2008, 6:14:58 AM12/10/08

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I mentioned this to a few people last night:

http://www.longurlplease.com

It's an api, along with a firefox plugin and a jquery plugin that will
convert short urls (eg tinyurl.com/123) to long ones (eg
youtube.com/watch?something).

Through twitter, emails, blog comments etc. etc. I see shortened links
everyday - often without enough context for me to decide if it's gonna
be a waste of my time clicking it.

I wanted to help eliminate that unnecessary waste of time caused by
the widespread use of short urls. I also wanted to learn a bit about
Google App Engine.

I'd love your feedback to help make it better.

Cheers,

Darragh

Andrea

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Dec 10, 2008, 7:55:27 PM12/10/08

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installed the firefox pluggin
liking it :)

Andrea

On Dec 10, 11:14 am, "Darragh Curran" <darragh.cur...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Andrea

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Dec 15, 2008, 1:16:05 PM12/15/08

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btw this can be of interest to you
http://ajaxian.com/archives/app-discover-an-add-on-to-aid-discoverability-in-the-browser

Darragh Curran

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Dec 15, 2008, 1:22:53 PM12/15/08

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Nice one - I hadn't seen that before - I'll use that.
Cheers,
Darragh

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