No more bit.ly for me

Published on September 17, 2010 by Eric James Stone

Lately I’ve been using Bit.ly to shorten URLs, particularly for Twitter and Facebook updates. Before that I used Tinyurl.com, but I switched to Bit.ly because of the extra 5 characters it gave me for tweets.

But I’ve got something better now. It’s just as short as Bit.ly, but a whole lot cooler — for me, anyway:

EJS.me

So now I can do things like:

• http://ejs.me/bio
• http://ejs.me/2
• http://ejs.me/cool

I know what you’re thinking: How can I EJS me some URLs?

Sorry, folks, but I’m the only one who can create EJS.me links.

(For those who are interested, I’m using a slightly modified version of PHPurl to run the back end.)

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3 comments on “No more bit.ly for me”

1. Mary Robinette Kowal says:

   September 17, 2010 at 9:09 pm

   Hey! I’m jealous.

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2. Meg Stout says:

   September 21, 2010 at 4:20 pm

   Cool – so did you purchase EJS.me? I assume one downloads Phurl v2 Beta 3.3.tar.gz or something?

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   • Eric James Stone says:

     September 21, 2010 at 4:24 pm

     Yes, I purchased EJS.me. I was rather lucky to find it available. And yes, you download the Phurl code and put it on the site for the domain you’re going to use. It requires PHP & MySQL.

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