[Cialug] TinyURL

[Adam Shannon]

Mostly, I dislike the short url's because they are teaching people
that clicking on any like (so long as it's from a "good" site) is
perfectly fine.  Oh, what could happen?  It's Twitter, I won't get
malware from 100+ people who I follow....  At the very least people
are learning that any domain with 3-4 characters (and usually 2 for
the tld) is a url shortener, which causes many more problems.

Another thing, there was a great post on url shorteners that was
floating around the past couple days.  Check it out.

http://www.google.com/buzz/dclinton/JKoWPTAAyvw/More-thoughts-on-URL-shorteners-This-post-explores
(Attached is a copy/paste of the page for everyone who doesn't want to
land on a buzz page.)

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:27, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> And another reason I hate this tinyurl thing... I know someone on a
> list I'm on referenced a certain site.  Can I search my email for
> links to that site?  Nooooo*.  They used a freakin' tinyurl or bitly
> or whatever.
>
> *To be spoken in a rising and falling melodic sarcastic tone of voice
>
> --
> Todd
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Adam Shannon
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