Your Own URL Shortening Service

URL Shortening is extremely useful when it comes to sharing URLs on IMs or Twitter and is easy to be read and remembered by humans. And TinyURL has been doing this for years and is perhaps the most famous Shortening Service with its easy-to-use API along with Bit.ly.

Shorty is a very simple PHP based URL Shortening script. As this works on PHP, you’ll obviously need Linux Hosting / Apache Server. If you don’t have, you look for some free PHP Hosting. You’ll also have to create a MySQL Database to store shortened addresses and its link. You’ll learn about it in the next few steps. (more…)

WordPress : Track your RSS Readers

I recently blogged on a WordPress Plug-in, Tracked Tweets, that would automatically update your Twitter with your blog posts. And here comes yet another WordPress Plug-in from Jack McIntyre – Tracked RSS. (more…)

Tweet what you Blog

Ever felt like having a handy tool that could update your twitter microblog when you create a new blog post, and that could automatically make your url short using TinyURL service and also allowing you to analyse using Google Analytics? Here comes a solution – Tracked Tweets, a WordPress Plugin by Jack McIntyre. (more…)