Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Category: Musings

  • Why I’m creating my own URL shortening service

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    Tom Goskar
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    I’ve long been concerned about the proliferation of “short URLs”, whose use has gathered great momentum, especially in the light of microblogging services like Twitter. Short URLs, such as those generated by TinyURL are convenient, especially when you only have 140 characters to get your message across. You can turn a huge URL, many hundreds…