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Experts Exchange was the first site to come into my mind when I first heard about Google's Personal Blocker.

"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy" - Tim O'Reilly.

DuckDuckGo is Cuiler. http://cuiler.com

Seems so, at least it's the database which failed and not the web server. A web server failure on a site covering real-time web servers news would be too weird.

Any personal experience you can share?

That's what happens when trolls feel like reddit, HackerNews and Quora are not fun enough.

Once they are fed up with bug trackers, they will probably move on and start contributing troll code to open source projects.

Zappos Head[hunt]ers

What kind of session data do you store in MySQL?

You can actually finger twitter/stautsnet users using any.io

  finger username@twitter@any.io
  finger username@identi.ca@any.io

git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | awk '/<p>/ {sub("<p>", ""); print }')"

It is not supposed to be safer - it's only purpose is to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.

It is not supposed to be safer or easier to remember - it's just supposed to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.

This is also based on a great open source script (yourls.org) which also has a wordpress plugin but most content websites do not seem to care about this and keep using services similar to ShareThis which create bit.ly links. I wish services like ShareThis would let site owners point an A record to their servers and host a URL shortening service for their domains.

URLs are longer than usual shortened URLs but are still much shorter than most sites' inner links.

Thanks! I changed it to cut names longer than 7 characters to 7 characters. If anyone finds this useful then I might create a set of words and a shorter but understandable replacement. ('development' to 'dev', 'photography' to 'photo', 'technology' to 'tech', etc.)

You dress better -> You feel better -> You work better.

Another possible solution - having the URL shortened by Twitter when sending to SMS users.

I think that nowdays the 140 char restriction is for keeping Twitter clean and readable, making it harder on the writer and easier on the reader - links are not hard to read and therefore there is no reason to restrict their length.

Also, users who actually use Twitter via SMS would probably not be capable of viewing the link anyhow so it could just say "(+lnk)" or something.

Shortened links are misleading, I might have not clicked your links if you wouldn't be hiding it. (already seen it, hate that specific blog, etc) - this makes your stats wrong cause many people might have clicked the link and closed it right away.

Last time I checked, bit.ly's statistics were counting all kinds of bots and did not allow filtering by useragent - they might have fixed this but in case they didn't then your stats are way wrong.

I also wish Twitter would allow 1 link per tweet as part of the tweet's general metadata and not count it in the characters restriction.

Shortened links are annoying and misleading, I've been wasting too much time clicking links I've seen already and links to sites I just don't like.

Official post by Google: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/05/adsense-revenue-share.ht...

Israel here.

I'd like to have coolthingtodo.com and host a site where people could share cool things to do in different situations.

For example:

* When you're drunk and think you got a cool new domain name on your mind -> Write it down on some note and only buy it the next morning

I have also disabled all my IM accounts for the same rasons but I did open one new one where I have only non-human contacts. I use it for receiving alerts from different bots and some tests (My work involves a lot of XMPP stuff).

My point is that IM only becomes a distraction and a timesink when you have human contacts (especially ones with too much free time).