Tag Archive for Thnlnk

New ThnLnks

August 2nd, 2006

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I was reading about using URL-shortening services for citations. One concern with these URL-shorteners is that they completely disguise the content be...

Blogging on ThnLnk

March 31st, 2006

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People have been writing about ThnLnk, which is a Good Thing. Hands-down, as you can see, people can't say enough good things about us! Here ar...

Awesome News! DBs Switched!

March 30th, 2006

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Well, OK, it's not awesome news. . . . Nor is it even remotely interesting. But I switched over the development DBs that ThnLnk has been running ...

Release: v0.2? I hardly even knew you!

March 24th, 2006

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So I feel like it's about time to call this point v0.2. I like releasing Alphas because everything can always be in flux. But isn't that t...

ThnLnk Bookmarklet

March 15th, 2006

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Thanks to Jill for the idea--a bookmarklet in your toolbar to create ThnLnks with one click! It also grabs the title of the web page for you....

How to Get Users to Input URLs

March 10th, 2006

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Maybe I shouldn't so surprised--but I am--how many users put phrases or titles into the URL field, and then also put a title in the Title field. ...

Time to Add the Random Quote Generator

March 5th, 2006

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With tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek but not-enough-people-looking-to-make-a-difference so I-might-as-well-not-even-try, I put up a random tagline gene...

Interstitials and Frames?

March 2nd, 2006

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One problem with the spread of ThnLnk is that it's pretty transparent to the non-technical user. They get to the content with no "experience" wit...

Privacy Statement

February 28th, 2006

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Honestly, ThnLnk doesn't collect anything except a URL, the words you use to describe the URL, and the standard cruft in server logs (IP, time, b...

Some Updates - Technical and Philosophical

February 26th, 2006

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I increased the length of the title input field; it looks like before people were getting cut off. But I don't want it to be too long--that kind ...

Alpha 0.11 Released

February 25th, 2006

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So I jumped the gun on the first 0.1 Release. (OK, I know, it was justa 0.1 release... No need to make any announcement to a blog that no one reads, ...

What is ThnLnk?

February 25th, 2006

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ThnLnk is a semantic URL redirecting service that puts meaning into URLs. It uses "titles"--words you use to describe content to someone else--to tag ...

Bugs? Bugs? Anyone?

February 25th, 2006

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I'm going to try to keep a list of bugs/issues. If you find something, please leave it as a comment, and I'll try to get to it. Thanks so ...

Alpha 0.1 Released

February 25th, 2006

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...And the development blog is also up and running. As a new release, I've also embraced another new release--Logahead blogging engine. So far, ...