Hello Folks, During RunRevLive.11, more precisely at 4:00 AM in the morning, I created fon.nu, a minimalist url shortening service. I created that because at 9:00 AM on the same day, I was going to give a presentation on social networks and wanted the URLs on my slides to be short. So, fon.nu domain was cheap and I quickly created some easy code. In the following weeks, I've been using my own url shortening service more and more and added more features to it.
Today I was checking my referrals in Google Analytics and I saw traffic comming from yourls project page. Yourls is an open source project for url shortening, you can install it on your own service and create your own version of a bitly-like service for example. When I went to the referral link to see how people were being driven from there to my own fon.nuservice, I saw something that made me very happy. One of their users saw value in some features that I think may be unique do fon.nu such as single use URLs and the like so he opened an enhancement request in yourls project page to add features from fon.nu to yourls. The developers refused with a very good answer, yourls has a plugin architecture so those features could easily be made into a plugin and thus the enhancement was rejected but still, seeing my little toy project used with an enhancement request for a major open source project made me smile. http://fon.nu is created with LiveCode server deployment, it is just 2 files of LiveCode code and the RevSpark libraries. It works great and now it is inspiring some people... check out the enhancement request at: http://code.google.com/p/yourls/issues/detail?id=798&can=1&q=fon.nu :-D -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
