Presenting Eeny.me!
I know it’s been a little while, but I wanted to let you all know I’ve been hard at work on a brand new project. It’s called Eeny.me!
Like my past Lil’ Text project, this new one is also a URL shortener, but I’ve taken it a little further this time. I wanted to create one that was a bit more original than the rest. I also wanted it to work well with Twitter, a social networking site that is used not only as a communication tool, but as a “cheerleader” for people that work on the web. I idea is, why just shorten a URL when you could potentially tie your name to it?
So after a lot of thinking and working, I came up with the concept for Eeny.me. I wanted a service that could use a Twitter user’s name in the sub domain and create links from there. For instance, my name on Twitter is mauteri. Once I log in using my Twitter user name and password to Eeny.me, I have access to the URL http://mauteri.eeny.me/ to shorten my URLs and promote them on Twitter (ex:http://mauteri.eeny.me/0).
And not only that, but if I go to just http://mauteri.eeny.me/, all my past URLs are logged for everyone to see. So if someone likes something I just posted, they can find other sites I’ve posted in the past. If they like enough of these, I potentially have a new followed on Twitter.
So anyway, I’m currently beta testing the basic workings of this new site while still further developing it. So far a few people on Twitter have taken quite a liking to Eeny.me, which made me feel like my time was well spent. Take a look and let me know what YOU think of the site!
How do I delete a link (or non-link as the case may be) that I added to eeny.me?
Instead of a twitter name like kippwatson, can I use kw as an alias for kippwatson?
hi kipp,
to delete a link, go to eeny.me, login, and click on ‘edit mode’ that will allow you to delete links. eventually i plan on creating functionality to edit links as well.
the idea for this shortener is to tie the url to your twitter handle, so you have to use your full handle to in the sub domain; for this, people with shorter handles have shorter urls. eeny.me is less about shortening to the extreme and more about shortening to something more personal and memorable.
if you do want to get even shorter urls, you can also go to the site, login, and shorten with http://eeny.me/123 if you like. when you’re logged in, the site still recognizes you as the one the shortened the link. i plan on eventually extending the bookmarklet to give the option at login to choose if you want to shortnen with http://name.eeny.me or just http://eeny.me.
Thanks for testing it out!