Category Posts for'knowledge'
Making URLs Longer
Everytime I follow a tinyurl.com or bit.ly link I always wonder if there’s a nasty website waiting. By which I mean one that might try and infect my computer by downloading malware. Longurl.org does the opposite, it extracts information from the linked page so you can get a feel for what the link is pointing to.
I know tinyurl.com has preview links that no one seems to use! there’s not just tinyurl.com or bit.ly nut nearly 200 url shortening services out there. There’s a full list on the longurl.org site of the ones that it handles. It’s nicely done and is a useful free service.
Posted: August 29th, 2009 under anonymous, knowledge, web.
Tags: lengthening, url
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Digging into your Name on the web
It’s not unknown for people to put their name into Google and to search on it; nothing like vanity and a touch of narcism. This isn’t the first site to do it, googlism has been around for donkeys years.
This though, originally was an art project and has become a website. It generates a sort of digital DNA of your profile on the web, but unlike real DNA of course can alter. It’s quite colourful and could I’m sure be expanded further. I’d love to see category links so I can find out what the illegal links are!
Posted: August 28th, 2009 under information, internet, knowledge, people, search, technology, toy, web.
Tags: internet, searching, [names
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Paid Question Site
This is the first entry submitted entirely from my iPhone (I have since changed the screen-shot and fixed the typos- d’oh). Uclue.com is a paid answers website. Yes a commercial site!
What makes it interesting is reading the questions and answers along with the prices. There are 499 questions in the Technology section, 2728 in total.
A typical recent one is asking what the energy consumption in GPs (UK NHS Public Doctors Surgeries), which was priced at $35 and the questioner certainly seems to have got value for his money. Readers can add comments and the researcher has followed up afterwards.
Posted: July 10th, 2009 under knowledge.
Tags: answers, commercial, questions
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