Tag Archives: bit.ly

No one will know you’re using bit.ly

I’ve been a big fan of Bit.ly. The added utility it provides to link shortening is unmatched. It makes tinyurl.com look like the url shortener of simpletons. Using Bit.ly conveys that you are tech-savvy to a certain degree. But what if you want the benefits of Bit.ly, without looking pretentious? Use biturlly. It’s a simple [...]

Bit.ly: Almost the Delicious of the Semantic Web

A little while back I wrote about how Bit.ly has the potential to bring us ever closer to the “semantic web” comparing it to the seemingly out-of-date delicious.com. Since that post, Bit.ly has added a few features as well as refined its user interface which suggest where Bit.ly may be headed.
The most significant new feature [...]

bit.ly and teaching the machine

It’s been a while since my last post. Since then I have been learning Python and Django. I definitely prefer Python to PHP. What I love about Python (and using Django) is that it allows a novice like myself to make relatively complex applications without frying my brain. One of my first projects with Django was [...]