I have been looking for a way to shorten URLs lately that is my own. While I like using public services, I don’t trust them to stay running for as long is I need/want them. I have tried a self-hosted app in the past, but hated the one I found at the time.
Then I found yourls. It has an API similar to bit.ly so that Twitter clients like Tweetie (Twitter for iPhone) can use the service. There is a plugin for WordPress so that you can automatically create short urls for all of your posts and post new posts to Twitter for you.
So that about covers it. I wanted to let you know that if you see a murl.me URL, I created it and it is not spam. There is even an API to expand the URL again, though I haven’t figured out how to add it to any service so others can see it.
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