Filed under: Utilities, Web services
U.nu enters the short URL arena
The field of link-shortening services is getting a bit crowded these days, with new ones popping up seemingly every week. U.nu is one of the latest contenders, and its attractively short and easy to remember base url might help it catch on. A U.nu link is way easier to type out or read to someone over the phone than the unicode characters offered by tinyarro.ws, for example, and it's shorter than bit.ly or tr.im. Other shorturl sites sweeten the deal with advanced features like link tracking or custom urls, and U.nu has its own set of perks to consider. It doesn't do fancy analytics, but it does tell you how many people have clicked. It doesn't use characters that are easy to mistake for others, like 0, O, 1, I, and l. It's also not case-sensitive, so anyone typing your URL won't have to worry about proper capitalization.
I find it a little odd that U.nu is focusing on make the URLs easy to say and type, when the most common use cases seem to involve just copying and pasting them, although I can see the benefit if you're on an iPhone. On the other hand, no one else seems to be addressing those particular concerns, so maybe U.nu has the market cornered.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
