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Yes, it's the new hype - URL shorteners (mostly for use in Twitter).
Some use the classic tinyurl, then there's is.gd and bit.ly and a fair bunch of others.

As some people already wrote, and I feel no different here, broken links are baaad, mkay?
So the easiest way would be to get a short domain for yourself and run your own url shortener.
I am happy enough to have secured myself a not yet publicly announced 3-char .de domain which I'm planning to use for that. This and being bored for 2h led me to roll out my own shortening service.

Enter Shortcore - 259 lines of php code, working already.
It needs PHP 5.2.0+ (I think :P) and sqlite and I've put it up on github - it's BSD licenced and comments and patches are very much appreciated.

How to use it when it's installed:

• http://example.org/_[uniqueid] redirects to what you saved.
• http://example.org/_[uniqueid]_ shows a preview
• So I have "xxx.de/_ab" - as low as 10 chars for an url (excluding http://), that's not less than a bit.ly url (currently at 5+ chars after the /) and I can still put normal content (not starting with a "_") on the domain - fair deal I think
• there's a bookmarklet for easy saving, either provide the [uniqueid] or let it be generated automatically
• it's not meant as a public shortening service, so probably some basic auth has to be added

Ist es nicht immer dasselbe?
Man hat tolle Ideen gehabt, sensationelle Features implementiert, mal wieder keine Doku geschrieben.
Lokal und/oder auf der Entwicklungsmaschine läuft alles.
Jetzt fehlt nur noch der Rollout. Oder das Release.
Eigentlich nur 10%-20% der Zeit, die man schon investiert hat.
Könnte man sogar unter QA buchen. Also zumindest die Doku und ein vernünftig versioniertes Release.
Aber die Motivation ist doch schon weg, und so verstaubts weiterhin.
OK, die Ausnahme ist natürlich, wenn der Kunde oder Teamleiter nervt.
Nennen wirs lieber Opensource-Entwickler-Blues.


Eigentlich nicht relevant, aber lustig: Projects on Google Code with "label:Python label:blog" - 50x Blog-Software in Django. Ein Traum :P