On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but you need to know in advance that [[Donut]] is at short.org/aGcK
> I'm not sure at this point which is what we're trying to solve.
I see two different use cases here: one, you have URLs that need to be
short so they can fit in Twitter messages and the like.  Here, it
doesn't matter whether the URL is human-readable, as long as it's
short.  The other use case is that you want to give people a
human-rememberable URL in speech or on TV or the like, where it can't
be hyperlinked.  There it should be short but ideally also
descriptive.

A single URL scheme won't necessarily work well for all possible use cases.

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