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BBC short URLs/URIs
Written by
LoopZilla
the 1 Jan 09 at 20:06.
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bit.ly, snurl, tinyurl are used by the BBC and many others.
What doesn't the BBC have its own short URL service?
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Solution #1:
Code it
Written by
LoopZilla
the 1 Jan 09 at 20:06.
Write some software?
Write some software?
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Solution #2:
Use an existing API
Written by
www.richardsprojects.co.uk
the 2 Jan 09 at 18:04.
bit.ly, snurl and tinyURL have APIs to allow you to use their service. You use one of them to allow BBC site users to easily make short URLs of pages.
This should be quicker to implement, but I'm not sure how you'd choose which one to use. Also, in support of solution #1 creating a BBC service would give the short URLS a more official BBC like nature.
bit.ly, snurl and tinyURL have APIs to allow you to use their service. You use one of them to allow BBC site users to easily make short URLs of pages. This should be quicker to implement, but I'm not sure how you'd choose which one to use. Also, in support of solution #1 creating a BBC service would give the short URLS a more official BBC like nature.
See the 7 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 2 Sep 09 at 15:38) >>
