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While I haven’t had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I’ve been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early efforts in DiSo were focused just on how to move social data around the web (data formats, protocols, authentication mechanisms, etc). Tantek is taking a slightly different approach to this by first emphasizing the importance of data ownership. It’s not enough to simply pull in a copy of your content from social networks into your local repository. In order to truly own your data, the original should be on your site, and then copies pushed out to whatever social networks, with links pointing back to the original where appropriate. It may sound like a purely academic distinction, but it’s the difference between sharecropping and homesteading.

White label URL shortener, makes short links on your domain

Shorten a long URL using our OPN.pm service for free.

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A domain name can be registered with up to 63 characters, so I registered loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong. Then I created an interesting URL lengthening tool, which is this page you're seeing now. The maximum length for a domain name is 253 characters, hence Longer than Long was born. I encountered quite a few issues during the process, which I've documented in this Github Issue. Feel free to join the discussion.

A simple bookmarklet to tidy up URLs for easy sharing.

That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye.