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		<title>LongURL&#8212;Restoring Order to the Universe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been two weeks since I conceptualized LongURL, and a productive two weeks at that! Last Monday I officially launched the service (which provides a handy REST API) with support for a dozen or so shortening services like TinyURL.com. Once I stepped away from the problem for a little while I realized there was a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been two weeks since I conceptualized <a href="http://longurl.org" title="The Universal Way to Expand Shortened URLs">LongURL</a>, and a productive two weeks at that! Last Monday I officially launched the service (which provides a handy REST API) with support for a dozen or so shortening services like TinyURL.com. Once I stepped away from the problem for a little while I realized there was a better way to go about solving it. Thankfully the way I designed the service didn&#8217;t make it very difficult to swap out that bit of business logic, so this week I rolled-out an update that adds support for <strong>all</strong> shortening services.</p>
<p>After getting feedback from some helpful beta testers (thanks <a href="http://marjoleinkatsma.com/personal/cv.html">Marjolein</a> and <a href="http://forteller.net">Børge</a>!) and making a few tweaks I was happy yesterday to release the LongURL Mobile Expander <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32115">Greasemokey script</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636">Firefox extension</a> which use the LongURL API to expand shortened URLs on <strong>any</strong> web page. I haven&#8217;t had much feedback from others yet, but for me personally, the extension tremendously improves my user experience. Sorry guys, no more rickrolling <em>me</em>!</p>
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Also, with the release of the incredibly awesome <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/">Ubiquity</a> extension from Mozilla Labs, I started work on a LongURL command which <strike>I hope to finish/release in the next day or so</strike> I just released. You can subscribe to the command from the <a href="http://longurl.org/tools">LongURL Tools</a> page. Does that sound like something that would be of interest to you? Have any ideas on how you&#8217;d like it to work? If so, leave a comment.</p>
<p>I would like to mention too that this has been the first time I&#8217;ve really used the <a href="http://launchpad.net">launchpad.net</a> platform for managing my project. It&#8217;s been a super experience; I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t start using it sooner, especially since I&#8217;ve been so <a href="http://elliotmurphy.com">close to it</a>. And bazaar? Well, let me just say that I&#8217;ll no longer be using Subversion as my VCS of choice. Bazaar rocks, and if you haven&#8217;t given it a try, I strongly suggest you do so. You won&#8217;t regret it.</p>
<p>A final note: as you can tell, I don&#8217;t always get around to blogging about cool stuff I&#8217;m working on right away (if at all), so if you&#8217;d like to get updates as soon as possible I suggest following me on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/iamseanmurphy">iamseanmurphy</a>) and/or identi.ca (<a href="http://identi.ca/seanmurphy">seanmurphy</a>). 140 characters just seems so much more digestible to me.</p>
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