Comments on: The Short and Winding Road http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: riffic http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10139 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:59:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10139 Gillmor as usual you write a lot of words but just don’t state the obvious point. Twitter, by ignoring this issue, allows url shortening habits to be adopted by the masses and this needs to stop.

my, and many others arguments are this: url shortening is dangerous.

1) it encourages users to click blind links, which may be malicious
2) spammers or phishers can use these blind links to do not so nice things to users

If Twitter has no interest in budging from their arbitrarily set 140 character limits, then Twitter must remove URL metadata outside of the message body and into a separate metadata field.

]]> By: riffic http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23461 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:59:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23461 Gillmor as usual you write a lot of words but just don’t state the obvious point. Twitter, by ignoring this issue, allows url shortening habits to be adopted by the masses and this needs to stop.

my, and many others arguments are this: url shortening is dangerous.

1) it encourages users to click blind links, which may be malicious
2) spammers or phishers can use these blind links to do not so nice things to users

If Twitter has no interest in budging from their arbitrarily set 140 character limits, then Twitter must remove URL metadata outside of the message body and into a separate metadata field.

]]> By: Aronski http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10138 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10138 In the end, someone has to maintain the integrity of the shortened links or these small messages will no longer lead to the rest of universe. It’s great that there are competing services and a given that some will not last, but if we depend on our linking history through these status platforms (uh, if we’re able to access our history through these status platforms beyond a few days), it’s important that the links still work to point us to what we referred to.

If one or two of the major players grab and make a(n) (open) standard of URL shorteners, it might not be a bad thing. Having a history, a file of the links and the places they pointed wouldn’t be bad either, just in case the service goes up in smoke.

For those people who have invested time, money and energy into these new communications, it would be dreadful to find that some or all of the links you created (or favorited) lead nowhere.

]]> By: Aronski http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23460 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23460 In the end, someone has to maintain the integrity of the shortened links or these small messages will no longer lead to the rest of universe. It’s great that there are competing services and a given that some will not last, but if we depend on our linking history through these status platforms (uh, if we’re able to access our history through these status platforms beyond a few days), it’s important that the links still work to point us to what we referred to.

If one or two of the major players grab and make a(n) (open) standard of URL shorteners, it might not be a bad thing. Having a history, a file of the links and the places they pointed wouldn’t be bad either, just in case the service goes up in smoke.

For those people who have invested time, money and energy into these new communications, it would be dreadful to find that some or all of the links you created (or favorited) lead nowhere.

]]> By: francine hardaway http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10137 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:32:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10137 I like your idea that URL shortening will be absorbed into the OS. I never thought of that, but it makes perfect sense. Especially if the OS is the browser or the browser is the OS, yes?

]]> By: francine hardaway http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23459 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:32:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23459 I like your idea that URL shortening will be absorbed into the OS. I never thought of that, but it makes perfect sense. Especially if the OS is the browser or the browser is the OS, yes?

]]> By: Aronski http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10136 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:36:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10136 Perhaps you should leave the verbose responses to the qualified…

]]> By: Aronski http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23458 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:36:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23458 Perhaps you should leave the verbose responses to the qualified…

]]> By: Kino http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10135 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:48:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10135 This is an interesting article. I never understood the whole point of url shorting. Its seems I never get technology until its widely adopted.

]]> By: Kino http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23457 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:48:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23457 This is an interesting article. I never understood the whole point of url shorting. Its seems I never get technology until its widely adopted.

]]> By: Really Interested Fascinating Stuff http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10134 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:23:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10134 That’s really great, interesting stuff, Steve. My only question is: how are you even able to write with your head so far up your own ass? Isn’t it dark in there?

Looking forward to your next incoherent War-and-Peace-sized post about Twitter.

]]> By: Really Interested Fascinating Stuff http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23456 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:23:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23456 That’s really great, interesting stuff, Steve. My only question is: how are you even able to write with your head so far up your own ass? Isn’t it dark in there?

Looking forward to your next incoherent War-and-Peace-sized post about Twitter.

]]> By: replicas-watchhome http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10133 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:18:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10133 Thank you sharing!!! Continue to work hard!! Give us better information.

]]> By: replicas-watchhome http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23455 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:18:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23455 Thank you sharing!!! Continue to work hard!! Give us better information.

]]> By: Paul E. Ester http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-10132 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:58:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-10132 Interesting article, looking forward to hearing it discussed on a future Gillmor gang. :)

]]> By: Paul E. Ester http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-short-and-winding-road/#comment-23454 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:58:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=3176#comment-23454 Interesting article, looking forward to hearing it discussed on a future Gillmor gang. :)

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