Short URLs are a bit of a hot-button topic amongst devs - some think they're useful (like Russell), some are wary of them (like me) and some, like my friend Simon, rail against them as a waste of time and resource.
Simon, however, is a sensible sort so rather than just making lots of noise about how they suck, he's gone away and tried to think of a sensible use case, then implemented it.
So take a look over at Wag.gd if you're interested in mobile development. Simon's written about it far better than I could and it's certainly an interesting idea.
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Cheers for the plug, old chap. Slightly chagrined that your blog post created more traffic than mine did, though!
I'd argue that you've misquoted me somewhat on the subject of short URLs in general, but I can't really back that up. Regardless, I'll try to cobble together a post with my thoughts, now that I'm part of the URL shortening, uh, community.
Simon Harris
29th December 2009, 22:45