Comments on: More on BURL

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:04:14 +0000

context!! yeah!! I got a TinyURL from a friend that not only did not work, but I had no idea just what the heck I was getting. love your idea. as an AOL user, I can insert hyperlinks right from the site, but some folks can’t open them and, well, URL’s get to be cumbersome. thanks for making the internet easier.

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:02:01 +0000

Fixed. I changed one variable, but didn’t change the other variable. But it’s fixed now. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Patrick O'Leary

Patrick O'Leary — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:56:53 +0000

It appears that BURL is broken right now. It isn’t putting the “contextual” part of the URL in, which means it isn’t working at all.

By: Edward Teague

Edward Teague — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:57:38 +0000

Good. Tiny was …well a bit too tiny…but size isn’t everything.

By: malatron

malatron — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:37:20 +0000

oh. got it. I had to drag it from this link on your page, as opposed to the site itself.
Thanks man, it’s great, and solves what I always thought to be the problem with TinyURL
Thanks again!

By: malatron

malatron — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:28:31 +0000

but can you drag a button to your tool bar on your browser?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:36:46 +0000

now that’s just crafty. We use tiny url a ton in linux chats when we send people things because big long links look awful in irc windows. The context part could be handy.

By: unraveled

unraveled — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Praise for simple tools that do one thing really well: BURL is like TinyURL, in that it shortens long URLs but it also leaves some context so the recipient of your slick new URL knows what the hell you’re pointing them at. Nice workAndrew Ferguson! 26 Oct 05 Any Pandora users out there? If yes, look up my shared stations using

By: adowha

adowha — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew Ferguson dot NET ? More on BURL As I said before, I’ve created BURL (Better URL). It’s really more of proof of concept based on an article at Lifehacker on Tiny URL Etiquette. The issue with TinyURL and just about any other site similar to it is that all context is lost. If I