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Comment on Bookmarklets, Twitter, TinyURL, and bit.ly – Lessons Learned by Axel Segebrecht

Axel Segebrecht — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:55:26 +0000

Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for! Works like a charm :-)

Comment on Bookmarklets, Twitter, TinyURL, and bit.ly – Lessons Learned by Grégo

Grégo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:30:05 +0000

I spent a large part of my day trying to do exactly the same thing. Same tries, same scripts. And finally I found your article. Thanks for the tip for bit.ly’s sidebar bookmarklet, I will use it from now.

Comment on TECHCoffee Regular by jimbreen

jimbreen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:32:39 +0000

Daniel,

I changed jobs shortly after starting work on the parser, and consequently no longer had a need for it. I’m afraid I didn’t get far enough to publish any code.

Comment on TECHCoffee Regular by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:35:30 +0000

Have you abandoned this project? Please give us a status update – I might be able to contribute.

Comment on Bookmarklets, Twitter, TinyURL, and bit.ly – Lessons Learned by Rick

Rick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:43:07 +0000

Excellent article. At first reading I did not understand everything. After stepping throught all the same failures I now understand the complete article #(

Looks like that there is no real alternative to twitthis.com at the very moment. With the backdraft that users have to login at twitthis instead of twitter…

Comment on Bookmarklets, Twitter, TinyURL, and bit.ly – Lessons Learned by Black Hornet

Black Hornet — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:22:35 +0000

also check out BigTweet and tr.im.

Comment on OMG! Google Calendar Syncs w/ MS Outlook!!!…Disappointment by Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:54:01 +0000

I resorted to finding some badly designed, but workable 3rd party util to perform this task. There’s a bunch. I haven’t tried the actual Google sanctioned thing.

Comment on Bookmarklets, Twitter, TinyURL, and bit.ly – Lessons Learned by BH

BH — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:29:49 +0000

The bookmarklet that you use from bit.ly indeed is the same the one at myopiclunacy.com as both do the shortening bit on the server side. The difference is that the code at myopiclunacy.com is provided if you wanted to host/alter the code yourself on your own server and, of course, only uses tinyurl.

But thank you for identifying the bit.ly solution. I have to take a look at it.

BTW – the bookmarklet you have would only work if the url shortening service exposed a JSON api. Anything else would need some sort of additional server-side connection.

Comment on Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 – Day 1 by Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 - Conclusions « Jim Breen’s Blather

Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 - Conclusions « Jim Breen’s Blather — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:54:45 +0000

[...] motivations for hosting it. My summaries of the first two days of sessions can be found here and here. MTS is a conference of technologists and bloggers invited by Microsoft to hear updates [...]

Comment on Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 – Day 1 by Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 - Day 2 « Jim Breen’s Blather

Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 - Day 2 « Jim Breen’s Blather — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:50:58 +0000

[...] Breen’s Blather Where I share what little I know « Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 – Day 1 Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 – Day 2 September 9, 2008 These dated notes went missing [...]