Morning Discussion
I'm afraid I didn't get much gaming in this weekend, and instead spent the bulk of my time either reading or sleeping. But I still managed to sink some more time into Peggle DS and the Prince of Persia Epilogue DLC. And no, I still haven't beat 50 Cent. Soon!
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replylink Redirect program suggestion/request
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I am basically looking for a program that does two things:
1. what tinyurl does
2. allow me to change where the new "tinyurl" goes to in the future
This is for sites that I run, and n to make a competitor, it's more for podcasts, where we currently host at one site and might in the future move to another (or multiple) host(s). Then there are links to books that we enjoy and appreciate, what if we find a better book place?
An added advantage is if we can change only parts of the link, for instance podtrac, a podcast download tracking system to take advantage of the system you simply add http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/ at the beginning of a link, so:
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-13972/TS-7520.mp3
turns into
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-13972/TS-7520.mp3
and the second one tracks, but they both go to the same location.
The ability to have the link go to say:
http://link.ArtistInsider.com/ArtistInsider1_1-MeetGreg_and_Jeff.mp3 , yet currently go to one of the two other links & control it from a good interface is what I am looking for.
It can either work as a wordpress plugin, or seperate. Having a wordpress plugin/control panel, but be a seperate program might be best.
ideas?
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:-( ... this was my plan:
1. ask the shack
2. ask on a couple other places (might post on my website and twitter it or whatever)
3. look through sourceforge and the sites like tinyurl, snipr.com, etc to see if there are hints
4. cry
5. work with cname options and subdomains
6. read through wordpress plugin db
7. get coding
yeah, but there are a couple projects before I start on step 3, which is why I put them in that order
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www.snipurl.com does this. you have to make an account, but you can edit all of your URLs later on.
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yeah, like libsyn/talkshoe/dreamhost/amazonS3/etc ... or even if you link to podcasts of other people (and want to link to their file so they can track the downloads).
other example is if you link to book sales pages ... so you might like linking to amazon.com right now, but later want to shift it to buy.com (or a site that does not exist today). Being able to pull up all links to amazon.com in one interface, and change them there (as opposed to looking through lots of pages/posts) would be useful.
that's the sort of situation I am looking at.
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That kind of thing is useful if you want to link to a side from a program that you release, where the site may more (or a better one appears) after the program is released.
e.g. I wrote a thing that lets people using a file manager view Office documents using whatever is installed. We wanted to put a link to the Microsoft Word etc. ActiveX controls but the URL for them keeps changing, so we link to a site that we control and that redirects to the right place. (At least once we realise the URL has changed and update the redirect.)
Much better than having to push out a code release because someone else changes their URL.
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This might be what you're looking for:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-click-track/
I'm not sure though because I've never used it.
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