After URL shortening service tr.im closed and then re-opened this week due to the public backlash, I thought it would be a good time to release Z.ips.ME, the URL shortener for PHP & MySQL that I started working on a few months back.
We’ve been using it internally for our Twitter accounts and it’s [...]
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Z.ips.ME Launched!
Announcing Z.ips.ME – Your Very Own URL Shortener
Background
When I started using Twitter, one of the first things that piqued my interest was URL shorteners. Not only does it make no sense why Twitter doesn’t officially have their own URL shortening service (although bit.ly is sort of official now), but it really made no sense to me why everyone used either bit.ly [...]
Will Twitter Replace…
No. The answer is no. Twitter won’t replace blogging or anything else. It is it’s own medium, one which I recently found was very helpful and decided was worth my time. But the idea that it will replace blogs is a little crazy in my opinion. Just like it’s crazy to think that blogs replace [...]
Tweet This
I just broke down and signed up for Twitter, but not for the reasons most people do. I found the Twitter search EXTREMELY helpful today when my Thunderbird + Google Apps Gmail IMAP email set up started giving me all sorts of errors. No one had likely blogged about it yet (plus there’s no real [...]
