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September 2009

Introducing urlShort 2.0.0

By matt ~ Posted September 30, 2009 - 11:00pm

urlShort Project. Version 2.0.0 features a revamped and updated user interface for both the web and bookmarklet views, a brand new automatic installer (complete with options for specific features), basic statistics (total visits since creation), optional embedded media (.FLV, .MP3, .GIF, .JPG, & .PNG), and sub-directory support for URLs, plus copy to clipboard (finally)!

Download urlShort 2.0.0


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Raising Awareness for Climate Change: Blog Action Day 2009

By matt ~ Posted September 23, 2009 - 6:39pm

Mark you calendars, Blog Action Day 2009 will be on October 15th. Blog Action Day is an annual event, where bloggers worldwide post about the same issue (last year was poverty) with the goal of starting discussion, and action for change. So if you have a blog (or, even if you don't), you should get going and sign up to participate now. As of this writing, over 400 blogs and taking part, including some big names such as The Google Blog, Mashable, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Autoblog, and Joystiq. And of course, Maverick Revolution is taking part again just as we did last year.

And while Blog Action Day is centered on raising awareness and establishing discourse, you can also take action or by helping promote it on sites like Twitter, Facebook, or your own blog.

One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.

More information at www.blogactionday.org.

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Announcing mavrev.org

By matt ~ Posted September 15, 2009 - 7:47pm

For quite some time Maverick Revolution has contributed to the open source community with our urlShort Project. More recently, we've also put together the Better Twitter Greasemonkey script compilation. Up until today, urlShort has been hosted on SourceForge.net, which was great for a while. It was free, fairly straight-forward, and easy. But recently SourceForge decided to change everything, and it's been, quite frankly, a pain in the ass to find things now both as an admin, and as a user. In addition, their hosted apps service was almost useless for us.

As a result of both of these we decided to move urlShort off of SourceForge.net. Major thanks to Tobie for providing the hosting for mavrev.org, and the urlShort Project. With this move, we have switched everything over. Our trac, SVN, forums, and website for urlShort are all on mavrev.org now. In addition, mavrev.org will host other open source projects in the future, as well as offering articles relevant to the open source community through blog postings similar to mavrev.com.

In summary, mavrev.org is the same as mavrev.com, but strictly for open source projects. Currently that only includes urlShort, but that will be changing in the future.

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Built with urlShort: m.brep.us

By matt ~ Posted September 13, 2009 - 1:32pm

We all know that short URLs are important for sharing links on social sites like Twitter because of character limits, but did you ever think that they could be useful for sharing music? Services like blip.fm do this, but they require a separate account. So what if you just want to link your Twitter friends to a great MP3 track?

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Hello again, world.

By matt ~ Posted September 9, 2009 - 9:55pm

It's been bad, I know. First HostingZoom took urlShort offline without notice, and then our move to Linode wasn't the smoothest. In fact, it's taken 4 days to get everything stable. At first, things were working, but slow. Then they just stopped working randomly. But thanks to Linode's community, and our host (and my friend) Adam Kragt for their help.

As of this posting, everything looks good, and while there may be some small hiccups, the worst problems are done with. But for those of you who didn't stop visiting during the past few days, stick around because there'll be some exciting news coming within the next few weeks. :)

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HostingZoom Takes urlShort Offline (updated)

By matt ~ Posted September 1, 2009 - 3:07pm
Up until today, Maverick Revolution and its services including imgUp and urlShort have been hosted by HostingZoom.Then around 11am (central) today HostingZoom took the urlShort subdomain (u.mavrev.com) offline, without any prior notification. Citing concerns of "abuse/spam links" being spread using urlShort, they decided in their infinite wisdom to just block off access both for our users, and for our FTP access. HostingZoom has effectively cut-off nearly 2,000,000 (2 million) URLs which are being clicked on around 5,000,000 (5 million) times per month. I can understand if they had a problem with links (which they claim we should have "filtered", which is damn near impossible), except the terms of service that urlShort users agree to is that links that abuse our service can be removed at any time, if they are reported by users. However, we have not received any reports from users (other than 20th Century Fox) for removal of any URLs. In addition HostingZoom did not contact us before deciding to cut off access. We're working on moving to a new server at Linode, because quite frankly HostingZoom sucks. Please, if you've used urlShort in the past, contact HostingZoom and let them know that they suck. A lot. Thanks. Follow @mavrev on Twitter to stay updated as we move to restore service to urlShort.

By matt ~ Updated September 2, 2009 - 6:32pm
So, HostingZoom are being complete dicks, and ignoring our requests for access to our own data. The earliest point at which we will be able to move to the Linode server is this coming Friday. Sorry.

By matt ~ Updated September 4, 2009 - 2:28pm
After 73h 15m of downtime, urlShort is back online. We will be moving to our Linode server sometime Sunday.
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