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TinyURL adds custom domain feature
TinyURL recently rolled out the ability to create custom domains. Just type in a word or phrase that you want to associate with the longer URL, and you could get a domain like http://tinyurl.com/downloadsquad. There's just one catch: If someone's already used the URL, you can't use it. So you might want to use the name of your web site, spouse, or dog sparingly. Otherwise you'll wind up with someting like http://tinyurl.com/downloadsquad4h85sy.
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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Kevin said 10:34AM on 7-09-2008
The feature will be great for adding some context to URLs before sending them along to others. No doubt the spammers will have a field day with this, e.g. "/CheapCialisHere," etc.
BTW, a nice article in my local paper about the kid who created tinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/StarTribuneArticle
Cheers.
http://www.kevinsbrady.com/
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emmzee said 6:14PM on 7-09-2008
Neat feature and nice article link re the creator of TinyURL.
I guess they forgot to mention some of the sites Mr Gilbertson created before TinyURL ... they were "get paid to" sites that came out when those were all the rage ... see for example ("Gilby Productions" at the bottom of the sites)
http://tinyurl.com/links2cash
Another of his was called "Opt-In-Pays" I think, though that one isn't available in Archive.org so I can't be sure. I did get paid from his programs back in the 'day so they were legit. :)
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