If you were to use URL123 instead of TinyUrl, you would be able to:
* update a short link if the destination link changes, without breaking the short link
* track how many clicks were made on each link
* give your links nicknames so you remember what they link to!
* customize your own subdomain [example - http://37signals.url123.com ]
* customize your short extensions [example - http://37signals.url123.com/SalonArti
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While the low entry barriers to blogging are empowering, the caveat is: Once you start a blog, you better keep it running. You must generate content or the blogosphere will soon forget you. This subtle pressure leads some bloggers to experience a mental unease that one might call “blogophobia†– the ever-present anxiety of letting your blog wilt like an un-watered flower.
Google has introduced RSS and Atom feeds for its popular Google News aggregation service.
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, and Atom are XML-based document formats that alert Internet users to the latest articles or postings on their favorite Web sites via a single feed reader, which can be integrated into an e-mail application or Web browser.
Thousands of German Harry Potter fans who could not wait for the latest JK Rowling epic to be published in their own language have translated the book in less than two days.
The “hobby translators” were too impatient to wait the 77 days required by German translator Klaus Fritz to complete the task and logged on to Harry-auf-Deutsch.de to finish the job in 45 hours.
Link: Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Germans in a hurry for Harry