Showing posts with label urlof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urlof. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

URLOF.COM will be shut down

For some time ago I have created url shortening service called URLOF.COM, it was used here and there in RSSHANDLER.
But recently someone used it to redirect traffic to some sites and was sending emails with links to URLOF redirects in them. GODADDY send me emails, that my domain is involved in spam, I explained them that it is only url shortening service and I cann't be responsible if someone includes my sites name in some bad email, but they didn't wanted to listen and understand anything and demanded money for dealing with this situation, so as this service does not bring much money, I finally decided to shut down URLOF.
So if you are using links via URLOF for rss feeds, you probably will have to change them and use direct links or another url shortening service.
After some time I plan to built in some url shortening directly into RSSHANDLER, so it will generate shorter urls by default.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Short url for video feeds

URL generated by RSS Handler are quite big and ugly, and if you are not using Nokia Bar Codes, or not sending links by SMS or e-mail, it is quite difficult to enter these URLs into mobile.
Now on each page there is link to create short URLs, that are easier to enter or remember, and that are much shorter than handler's links.
To create links is used site URLOF.COM  and it can be used to shorten all kinds of links, but not only links from RSS Handler .