I think Skreemr is a good idea. I’m pretty sure it’s just an interface to a Google MP3 search query, but still it makes life easier because it provides data about the MP3 such as title, artist, bitrate, etc.The problem is that the simple search is too simple. What I’m usually looking for–for informational purposes [...]
Just a very quick, simple tool to access some data about how your ThnLnks are being used.
Go here:http://thnlnk.com/stats.php
Enter your ThnLnk and you’ll get the number of times it’s been accessed and then a list of all the times it’s been clicked with an attempt at figuring out the referrer.
I changed the ThnLnk “apps” interface to be a little more robust:
http://thnlnk.com/[app]/[query]
So, for example:
http://thnlnk.com/mv/02110
http://thnlnk.com/mv/Somerville, MA
Other official apps:
mp - Google Maps
tr - Google Maps with traffic overlay
we - Weather.com on an hour-by-hour basis
ye - Yelp.com look-ups by restaurant name (to your default city)
rv - USPS reverse zip code look-up, i.e., find what cities/towns are in what [...]
Oh, so I just wrote that some updates would be in the “future,” but it looks like the future is now. Ever wake up in the morning and you want to check the weather or traffic in your neighborhood? You *could* bookmark Weather.com or Google Maps, or keep them in del.icio.us, or go to the web [...]
Updates:
Removed repetitious periods in the ThnLnk.
Added text box for easier click-selection in Safari.
Cleaned up code a little bit.
Keep an eye out for:
Auto-select and copy from the text box.
Easy access to weather and maps via very simple, user-friendly “API.”
From lascribe:
Since last year, Transport for London has been running a series of posters aiming at improving passengers’ behaviour. To soften the underlying stern injunctions (”Don’t push!”, “Don’t block the closing doors to squeeze in at the last moment!”, “Keep your music volume down!”, “Don’t eat smelly or drippy food on the Tube!”), the designers [...]
So not only do ThnLnks work semantically:
http://thnlnk.com/metacritic/The.Best.Books.of.2006/998
And just purely as a moderated shortened URL:
http://thnlnk.com/metacritic/082407/0000003054
(The web site domain “metacritic” and the date of ThnLnk creation (August 24, 2007).)
But now you can remove the padding from the unique ID:
http://thnlnk.com/metacritic/082407/3054
Or at the shortest it can be:
http://thnlnk.com/metacritic/3054
Not too shabby, eh? I think I might make this the default format [...]
So up until now every ThnLnk had a unique identifier tagged onto the end of the URL so that ThnLnks don’t get “clobbered.” But I came to and remembered that they need to semantically useful–which also means that you should be able to read a ThnLnk to someone else.
If you mix upper- and lower-case letters [...]
I cleaned up about 100 lines of code, which should make things a *little* bit faster. Mostly housekeeping, not much in the way of actual optimization.
I also implemented some more spam control, allowing ThnLnk to ban IPs and to monitor ThnLnks that are being used at a suspiciously high rate.
I’ve been working with my fantastic hosting company, DreamHost, who first warned me of the spam generated via ThnLnk, to control the creation of spam links through ThnLnk.
I’ll be implementing a sizable slew of them by the week’s end, and hopefully this will help stem the usage of ThnLnk for despicable purposes by the one [...]