I’ve been playing around with some ideas in my head about how URL shorteners can enhance the social media and blogging experience. So using this post written by Leah Culver as a starting point, I started work on my own URL shortener to be deployed on Google App Engine. This is the first iteration of the project.
The converted URL for this blog - http://obl.appspot.com:80/c/4
The site does only one thing at the moment which is to take a long URL and convert it to a relatively shorter URL. Since I haven’t gone and buy some super short domain name like http://is.gd/ or http://bit.ly, the resultant URL isn’t that short. However, the good thing about the way the service has been setup is that when I do get a better and shorter domain name, the service can easily be ported over without ‘killing’ the earlier created URLs.
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