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bit.ly Pro account

Feb 11

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Bit.ly Pro realtime dashboard

Finished the setup for my bit.ly pro account. I’m using lu.is as the short url. Basically lu.is is a cname for bit.ly. The advantage is I get a Pro dashboard and better stats on short URLs I generate and I can monitor bit.ly click throughs to scaryideas.com even when they are generated by other bit.ly users.

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Testing Posterous while waiting for the DART

Nov 26

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My own URL shortener bes.tw

Sep 02

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I decided to create my own URL shortener with the open source project urlShort by Maverick Revolution. The URL is bes.tw, pronounced “bestow”.

The next version of urlShort promises alot of new features including statistics for click throughs, etc. I tried to get Kissabe working but there is no documentation for it and it appears the developers are working on a new version and are not going to worry about the docs for the current version. If anyone has gotten version 3 of Kissa.be working, please let me know how.

I’m using it with scaryideas.com and projectcartoon.com to generate short urls for twitter.

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Migration to a new server

Aug 19

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I have completed the migration to a new server. Both servers are hosted in Hetzner.

Old Server: DS 3000
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
Storage: 2 x 400 GB SATA II

New Server: EQ 4
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 Quadcore
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Storage: 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD

Both servers have 2TB transfer per month and both cost €50 per month.

I have already noticed that the scripts to regenerate the pages on scaryideas.com are running much faster.

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Firefox winning by a big margin

Jul 02

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Scaryideas.com browser percentages for June '09

Firefox is winning on scaryideas.com by a huge margin, 67%. Leaving Internet Explorer with just under 13% and very close behind Safari at 10%. Firefox’s large lead on scaryideas.com is probably because the main audience are design orientated people who would use Firefox’s plug-ins rather than home or corporate users who may stay with IE.

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