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 [...]
So I got an e-mail about a local restaurant, so I go to the web page, and there’s an address but no map. Easy schmeezy. Copy and paste the address, type out “thnlnk.com/mp/” and then paste the address in, and there ya go, a Google Map!
http://thnlnk.com/mp/150 Highland Avenue, Somerville Ma
It’s really that easy.
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 [...]
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 [...]