Comments on: A URL Shortener Lesson Learned

By: Don't Treat Shortened URLs As Permanent | The Culture of Content

Don't Treat Shortened URLs As Permanent | The Culture of Content — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:22:33 +0000

[...] learned this lesson the hard way after being burned in the past by URL shortener PopRL (see: A URL Shortener Lesson Learned). URL shorteners will come and go, and when they go they will take all of the URLs you’ve [...]

By: wegatalk

wegatalk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:50:13 +0000

thanks for the information

By: robblatt

robblatt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:49:26 +0000

Funny thing. IT HAPPENED TO US TOO.

By: charmcitygavin

charmcitygavin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:52:47 +0000

Any chance we can redirect Put It In Your Ears traffic to Cake Farts? Just for a day or so, I mean. You know, as a treat for the listeners. Might be a similar audience.

By: robblatt

robblatt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:51:37 +0000

I feel bad calling out the company publicly. I'll let you know privately.

By: JJJENNNNN

JJJENNNNN — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:23:35 +0000

I'm very sorry about laughing at your demise, but I had a bad day and this story gave me a chuckle. “Cakefarts”, heh…

May I ask which url shortener you were using?