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Re: archive.org's S3-alike service? (Scripting News)

playerx — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:19:24 -0000

This is awesome. Thanks for the pointer Dave.

Re: Testing BuddyPress (Scripting News)

playerx — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:35:25 -0000

Hi Dave,
I have the p2 theme (slightly more simple theme like twitter.) installed on my wp-mu + buddy press test site.

http://2ff.us/

Feel free to make an account/blog. I just now setup the DNS wildcard for sub-domain blogs.

Re: Twitter's lists (Scripting News)

playerx — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:44:53 -0000

I think everyone who doesn't like pure chaos will eventually index and categorize their following/followers into lists.
<3 Reading Lists;
I still can't believe that someone or thing actually got a reading list patent.

Those who are on the SUL, with lists, will still have the inorganic popularity driven flow of garbage. Their lists will get more eyes and list follows.

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

twitter-14902465 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:52 -0000

The management interface is just one part of it, what about the fact there is a working specification, common APIs for TelHosting nameservers and the data consuming clients, a key brokerage for encrypted records, and as a bonus a consistent representation of records on the web. There's probably other stuff I've missed, but you get the picture.

.tel names are self-evident and can be recognised for their purpose. Whether you think the suffix means telecommunication, telephone, or telegram.. it doesn't seem important enough to matter to me. As was said elsewhere, it could be quietly dropped within an rsscloud context anyway.

You're right that new TLDs require vast amounts of money to create; there's an application fee, operational costs and even cash reserves to consider (ICANN DEMANDS stability, obviously). Oh, and you'd also need a great deal of tenacity (the original application for .tel was submitted in 2000).

If you resent the fact that all of this costs you around 10 bucks a year then I'd say everything has a cost built in somewhere. In this case it's probably a good thing that it's on the front end. I own my .tel domain and all the data within it, I can take it anywhere I like and I don't have to rely upon some third party, whether it be a behemoth or just some guy. That matters.

I'm re-reading 'Another brick in the cloud' in which a solution was invited and the "fight for every inch" [for simplicity] mantra uttered:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/06/ano...

I guess I was the one who misunderstood :-)

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:31:47 -0000

We're doing all this work, in part, to stop working for Twitter-the-Company, at least I am. I'm so fed up with these business models that have a line that says Over Here You Are And You Don't Get Paid and Over Here Are We and We Make Huge Money. Fuck it. If I'm going to make nothing I'll do it where no one makes anything. Telnic looks like Twitter except they don't have the critical mass. What are they offering us other than free use of their TLD. I paid $10 for supercloud.org. Okay that's a nice deal. I get $10 and...?

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

playerx — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:12:23 -0000

To some extent, I can't blame them.
Everyone is just trying to make nice things out of prior art. :)

But you said it right there. "they've got a nice web app for editing my DNS profile";

So to some degree they just lowered another barrier for people who do not/cannot/will not run their own Internet enabled vCard and they also just happened to have the right amount of money for ICANN to bless them with control over a TLD.

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:53:04 -0000

I just watched their presentation at DEMO 08 and I didn't get it. I
mean I get it, in that I understand how DNS works, and they've got a
nice web app for editing my DNS profile, but I don't see what's so
special about .tel.

And there's is going be a lot of confusion about .tel and telephones.

What people think matters -- esp with a bootstrap which is clearly
what .tel is. It won't be what it promises to be until we all buy into
it. That's why we're getting such a sales pitch here, I think.

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

playerx — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:33:02 -0000

The whole .tel TLD in my eyes is just another way for another domain registrar to get you to purchase yet another domain.
The information on the .tel is just what you've chosen to share about you which points elsewhere, other domains, or methods of contact, phone, postal mail, etc.

Any capable user with a domain, using DNS, and HTTP can do what .tel does today.
I'll further add, any new ccTLD or gTLD is not going to add/do anything which cannot already be done today.

Re: He has a million followers (Scripting News)

playerx — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:18:23 -0000

*sigh*

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / What does it all mean?

playerx — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:57:31 -0000

Time to invest in a third mysql replication partner?
Master -> Slave -> Slave?

Anyways... Sad to hear to hear about the data and URL loss. Thankfully I haven't been posting through pingfm constantly, as of lately thanks to a lack of supporting MacOSX twitter clients. How much of the short URL address space did you have to invalidate?

Thanks guys for keeping us updated so thoroughly!

Re: Someone give Om an award (Scripting News)

playerx — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:14:57 -0000

It's good to see FeedBurner isn't stripping out elements from the Feed.

Re: Nambu to be Re-Released (so to speak)

playerx — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:46:31 -0000

Well then Snow Leopard is going to break my Nambu this Friday when I upgrade.

This is kind of poor and another reason to open source the client.

Way to keep your OSX client #1 with the users!

Anyone know of another good Free native client without ads?

Re: New API Methods

playerx — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:56:45 -0000

This is good. Plus with the move to open source tr.im it's only going to strengthen your position. Keep it up.

Re: Courage and cowardice (Scripting News)

playerx — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:52:48 -0000

w00t! for the Jon Stewart Quote. It may have been gold though. :)

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News)

playerx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:06:40 -0000

"Ideally, you'd want all URL shorteners to use the same name space to prevent a token collision."

Using all the same token name space, while everyone has their own FQDN would severely handicap the ability for any one URL shortener to act alone in provisioning tokens without a clearing house. I sure as hell don't want to see an ICANN of shortURL.

It's too late for collision prevention, no one does it, and it's too time constraining. Also, to manually choose new tokens and then update all the accessible HTML elements for links already distributed sounds like a nightmare.

All the manual DNS changes can be a hassle should your provider not allow you to adjust SOA or individual TTL refresh, expiry entries.

Here's a tip, if we point our CNAME to your partner.adjix.com; you should be the one to update DNS records when you fail, not us.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News)

joemorenoscripting — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:57:37 -0000

The service will work for you, going forward, if you follow the steps outlined below.

Ideally, you'd want all URL shorteners to use the same name space to prevent a token collision.
Otherwise, each URL shortener will need to check your bucket to see if you've already created a link with the same token before shortening your link. If so, then the URL shortener will need to choose a new token which isn't really a big deal - most provide that service, now, by letting you pick your own token: http://tinyurl.com/ReallyCoolLink

Here's what you'll need to do:

1. Create an S3 bucket named sho.rtu.rl.

2. You'll need to share your bucket with Adjix so it can save a copy of each link to your bucket. Details here: http://adjix.com/tt3b

3. Log into your Adjix account and click Edit Profile. At the bottom, just enter the name of your bucket.

That's it - each link that you now shorten with Adjix will be copied to your bucket.

If you want Adjix to track click stats then you'll need to point the CNAME for sho.rtu.rl to partner.adjix.com.

If Adjix goes down, for any reason, then you can simply change the CNAME for sho.rtu.rl to sho.rtu.rl.s3.amazon.com and the link will continue to work.

Please don't hesitate to let me know if this is confusing.

Thanks,
Joe

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News)

playerx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:37:00 -0000

How would I be able to move my current "http://sho.rtu.rl/ty35" link to your service?

From what I've seen playing around with your solution, you would need everyone to work around the same name space, base32,64, 1-12? characters, otherwise there would be overlap when moving your short link files between services when they "close up shop" and you will have to create more sub-domains each time. {a,b,c,d}.ho.st

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News)

playerx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:12:43 -0000

Here's more about the canonical link element.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an...

On the YouTube video around 12:20 the presenter begins talking about how the site reputation does not transfer between domains.
So having canonical tags pointing to domains anywhere other than the current domain or sub-domain causes Google to ignore it.

ex. of good use of canonical element and bad.
a.blah.com/1137 -> blog.blah.com/2009/08/19/some-post-about-stuff
ad.vu/1137 -> blog.blah.com/2009/08/19/some-post-about-stuff

Re: tr.im to be Community-Owned

playerx — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:56:20 -0000

BTW, I bet if you release @nambucom under MIT like you plan to do with tr.im you'd further cement your relationship with the community, and have software platinum in hand, which would devour any remaining Mac OSX twitter clients.

Re: tr.im to be Community-Owned

playerx — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:52:34 -0000

+2 points for some redemption.

Thanks Eric :)

Re: The right and wrong way to do tech (Scripting News)

playerx — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:44:03 -0000

Unless the S3 is doing 301-307 then the link juice is lost from what I understand.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

playerx — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:49:18 -0000

Yea, that magic number of character length is annoying as hell to me. ping.fm does it too occasionally.

There really just needs to be on/off switches for the application of URL shortening in these networks.

Anyways while still a shorter example of the title and URL, the tr.im'd URL length example is understandably a bit extreme.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

ejw — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:28:41 -0000

It has be a certain length. When I said "title" I meant something like http://tr.im/very-long-article-title-example where the total character count is still less than 140 characters.

Re: tr.im R.I.P.

playerx — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:53 -0000

With that statement, I believe you just obviated the need entirely for short URL services, automated and hand made backups.

In all honesty, yes those links were throw-away links in the greater sense, because I did create them on domains which I have no control over. I will ultimately have to deal with that should I become unable to rewrite what is in my Database.

I saved all those full size links in a database system not of my own control, without any sort of backup tools, in either tinyurl, tr.im, bit.ly, and my only index key is the short URL in backup. So at this point, tinyurl.com has been around longer than Twitter, bit.ly and tr.im put together. I also suppose you expect me to have those URL somewhere that I shortened from 2001 as well.

Of course all Internet services are going to fail at some point. But you also need to ask yourself which services have tools to easily export all the entries. Even with twitter you can only go back 3200 posts. Unfortunately I did not get a decent backup system for twitter in place until after reaching over that system limitation.

I have enough of the short URL created and backed-up to be happy, and again should someone write a WordPress plugin or mysql database script which expands them all, life would be great.

So in the mean time a decent opportunity for someone to come in and own this uncaring, difficult to make a buck niche of the Internet as it is ripe for the taking for those who want the glory.

Re: tr.im R.I.P.

embeddedmind — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:34:02 -0000

If you were smart enough to know that twitter wouldn't be around forever, then you probably knew that tr.im would't be around forever. So you must have saved all your links in some database. Right?