It’s a small web after all!

Mike Auteri — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:26:52 +0000

That’s the clever tag-line I came up with (and my wife approved of) for my latest web app project, Lil’ Text. At the moment it’s a typical URL-shortener, which takes a long URL like this:

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/09/photoshop-gets-real-best-ad-ever/

and makes it this:

http://liltext.com/6

The advantages are numerous, but people mostly use URL-shorteners for microblogging, SMS, and email.

Of course, I don’t want to just create something that exists on hundreds of sites. I have a plan to eventually take it to the next level… which I will reveal at a later date (don’t want anyone creating it before I do, obviously).

Over this past weekend though, I made some more progress by implementing bookmarklets for both Twitter and Plurk. I want to take this a step further (probably some time this week) and give users the ability to “customize” these bookmarklets to their own liking, which could really drive people to use the site a bit more, I’m hoping.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited about this project, and will keep you—my loyal readers—updated with my progress!

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It’s a small web after all!