Linkmoji – Turn any link into Emoji

I was wondering what was the motivation behind "pizza-poo.ws" and the author refers to Linkmoji as "aka pizza-poo" on his Twitter[1]. There are no details on the choice though :)

[1] https://twitter.com/ericnakagawa/status/619048420137787392

chasing• 11 years ago

Instead of "Why?," one should ask: "Why not?!" :-)

dazmax• 11 years ago

That combo has been used as a homonym for "piece of shit".

See http://🍕💩.ws/💩📦🐱🍅👊🐌

inieves4• 11 years ago

take a look at http://shizz.it

i made http://👿.shizz.it

ericnakagawa4• 11 years ago

You can now use http://🆒🔗.ws

Kenji2• 11 years ago

I just copy-pasted one of these links to skype. Encoding issues ensued. Everything is just a rectangle and when you click it, it gives an alertbox with:

Low surrogate char without a preceeding high surrogate char at index: 9. Check that the string is encoded properly.

It seems like Unicode support is still broken in many places.

na85• 11 years ago

It's definitely still broken in my browser. This is just "two rectangles dot ws" for me.

Chrome 43.0.2357.130 on Debian Sid. You'd think this sort of thing was rare but IME it's commonplace, not least because the average user doesn't really understand font rendering. For example I have no clue where in the stack the error that's causing me to see two rectangles is, and no motivation to sift through arcane documentation to try to sort it out.

hobarrera• 11 years ago

You probably have no font for emoji. Installing symbola should fix this.

toxican3• 11 years ago

I pasted it into Skype and it appeared fine, but the person who received it got a bunch of blocks. Had the same issue when clicking it though. Wonder if skype version has anything to do with it? Using 7.5.0.102 myself.

Kenji2• 11 years ago

I am using the same version on Win7.

dak1• 11 years ago

It looks like it also supports converting the links to use ASCII (ex: http://🍕💩.ws/cow-tako-chick-pineapple-trumpet-melon), although I'm not sure the point since the domain is still unicode.

TazeTSchnitzel4• 11 years ago

That description suggests Skype's using UTF-16 but garbles it somewhere along the way.

silveira• 11 years ago

These links don't work on twitter. :(

kazinator2• 11 years ago

URL shortening is nothing new. (Oh, this uses Unicode characters, pardon me.)

More importantly, shortened URL's are harmful.

They are brokered through an intermediate site which could disappear or otherwise exhibit amnesia.

They can also be used to cloak links to harmful sites.

If criminals buy the domain, they can re-write the database of shortened links to go elsewhere, like to their harmful sites.

gipp• 11 years ago

Dude, this is a site intended 100% for joke-based use. Don't worry about it.

kazinator2• 11 years ago

What steps are taken to ensure that the uses are aligned with the site's intent?

You mean that if I know of a malicious URL, I somehow cannot shorten it using this website, because it is contrary to its "intent"?

moistgorilla• 11 years ago

Considering things harmful is now considered harmful. Please stop.

toxican3• 11 years ago

While I certainly agree with you on the dangers of URL shortening services, this is pretty obviously a joke / proof of concept type thing.

ericnakagawa4• 11 years ago

To add insult to injury, I've also created: http://🆒🔗.ws :P

erickhill2• 11 years ago

This is going to be devastatingly dangerous for my company Slack channel. At least for a day.

Khao2• 11 years ago

Slack converts the ascii emojis to their own images so the links become text with images and you can't click on it or even copy/paste the link.

erickhill2• 11 years ago

Just discovered that. What a shame.

sudioStudio64• 11 years ago

I smell a browser parser bug in the making.

alexpw• 11 years ago

Sending these in Adium/jabber instantly disconnects me from the server (same is true for a single pizza slice).

Maybe I can still prank someone by emailing them the link and telling them to msg it to me? ...

andrewstuart2• 11 years ago

Out of curiousity, could you register an emoji TLD?

Like, andrew.💩 ?

edent• 11 years ago

There aren't any emoji TLDs - check https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt for the canonical list.

There's nothing technically stopping an emoji TLD - after all, .香港 exists.

jetpm• 11 years ago

or 💩.com

inieves4• 11 years ago

there was only one (maybe two) TLDs that would allow emoji domains names.. that was the famous .la TLD

and so you saw http://💩.la

that was my inspiration for http://shizz.it shizz.it allows people to create http://👿.shizz.it or any other emoji character mix, as a subdomain, which is then redirected to any other URL. Thus link forwarding.

By making use of emoji in subdomains, you can get around the restriction of no emoji in domains or TLDs.

;)

icebraining2• 11 years ago

Nope, the new gTLD program just allows letters a-z, nothing else. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/fa...

TazeTSchnitzel4• 11 years ago

Not true, the new gTLD program allows Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), e.g. the Japanese .みんな (minna, "everyone"). The ASCII label is not the same as the TLD itself.

inieves4• 11 years ago

http://shizz.it

i wrote this link shortener... similar idea, but you actually get to choose your emoji mix... which i call a shizz

lemme know what you think! try it out... i think its a little buggy.. i had major challenges getting utf-8 stream encoding working properly on my AWS image with MySQL, but it mostly works :)

i just created http://👿.shizz.it

try going there!

eric, would you like to collaborate?

lfx• 11 years ago

This would be great with QR code! Just print link in Emoji on t-shirt, or other surface and write

"Check out my website http://🍕💩.ws/ Got problem typing it? Scan QR code!".

kevando• 11 years ago

Can someone explain how this works?

TazeTSchnitzel4• 11 years ago

It's just a link shortener, but using Emoji instead of alphabetical characters. Nothing prevents you from using non-conventional digits for some number base. If I want to, I could make "abcdefghij" be the digits for zero through nine in base ten.

If the domain is what surprises you, that's not new. Internationalised Domain Names have been around for a while now, and support any Unicode character (with registrar restrictions to prevent phishing etc.)

azdle• 11 years ago

Interesting, Firefox can't seem to handle redirecting to another domain that includes emoji:

http://🍕💩.ws/🎉🐴🌊🍔💣🍊 should redirect to http://🍕💩.ws/

ericnakagawa4• 11 years ago

Hi folks, I built this for fun yesterday. Happy to answer any questions. I'm in the process of adding custom emoji urls. :D AMA

hieron2• 11 years ago

Hey, quick question, I can't seem to figure out how to register a unicode domain on iwantmyname.com. Any tips?

hieron2• 11 years ago

Am stupid. Figured it out

Linkmoji – Turn any link into Emoji

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