Of bots and URL shorteners

jjeff recently created a URL shortening service at http://lbt.me which we're using for internal things at Lullabot, like our addresses on our business cards. Mine happens to be http://lbt.me/sirkitree for example. It's a fun little project he calls shUrly. This is great because as a service I was able to integrate the bot module with our service and now am able to have our IRC bot return shortened urls for us. Fun stuff! Relevant links: shUrly module: http://github.com/Lullabot/shurly shUrlyBot module: http://github.com/sirkitree/shurlybot lbt.me: http://lbt.me lullabot (irc.freenode.net)

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moshe weitzman (not verified)

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 19:52

I'm not too clear on why you would not print http://www.lullabot.com/sirkitree or similar on a business card. Your printer charges by the character?

sirkitree

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 21:41

It was more of a "cool" factor. We think it's pretty cool to have our own URL shortener. Nerdy, I know.

Anonymous (not verified)

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 15:07

It's really a shame that Lullabot didn't take advantage of the existing modules that do this, namely http://drupal.org/project/shorturl possibly with http://drupal.org/project/shorten -- a sad example of a lack of research, perhaps?

sirkitree

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 09:03

I think it was really more of the challenge of creating his own from scratch than anything.

capnjav (not verified)

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 06:22

Any chance on making this a contributed module on drupal.org?

sirkitree

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 08:18

Not sure - it's jjeff's and he used github to learn git. Might hold out until the conversion.

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