mckoss: A follow up to Schachter's post that URL Shorteners are "evil" [url-shorteners, links, techcrunch] - 4 years ago

mckoss: I particularly wanted to defending even "Framing" URL shorteners (like DiggBar, Facebook, and Go2.me). Seems like there are many that hate them. - 4 years ago

sung: agree with your comments. - 4 years ago

mckoss: Thanks, Sung! - 4 years ago

mckoss: BTW - you can see my comment at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/06/are-url-shorteners-a-necessary-evil-or-just-evil/#comment-2687105  - 4 years ago

jwalling: mckoss: Go2.me is throwing a lot of Application Error messages. Is that just me? - 4 years ago

mckoss: It's a bug, John. It's basically means it's having connection problems with the server (polling each 5 seconds for the Chat window). I'm going to ignore these for the most part. - 4 years ago

peter: I think you're right mike, plus, techcrunch doesnt know anything except what someone tells them that morning or night. - 4 years ago

peter: peter: plus, techcrunch is like page 6. Erick stating "Nobody really likes them"...meaning the millions of people who use them everyday? - 4 years ago

mckoss: That was a very odd comment, I agree. It's a little disappointing to see a "journalist" being so cavalier with their statements with little regard for fact checking or accuracy. - 4 years ago

hey - 4 years ago

I like this chat - 4 years ago

what is it powered by? - 4 years ago

nicky: don't know - 4 years ago

mckoss: It's built in to Go2.me...open source on Google AppEngine if you want to look at. - 4 years ago

this is stupid - 4 years ago

can you post a link for where the open source code is? - 4 years ago

mckoss: Sure - http://code.google.com/p/g02me/  - 4 years ago