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)!

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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.

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.

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?