Technologist For Hire » Projects http://www.nexdot.net/blog An everyday attempt to stand out Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:24:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 eBurl.net – Short eBay URLs, and More! http://www.nexdot.net/blog/2007/12/04/eburlnet-short-ebay-urls-and-more/ http://www.nexdot.net/blog/2007/12/04/eburlnet-short-ebay-urls-and-more/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:20:19 +0000 Christian Flickinger http://www.nexdot.net/blog/2007/12/04/eburlnet-short-ebay-urls-and-more/ I recently began working on a project called eBurl. eBurl is a resource for shortening those long, ugly, confusing eBay URLs into something short, portable, and friendly! eBurl creates random, short URLs (such as tinyURL), or custom, short URLs. The site also keeps track of keywords, clicks, and other statistics.

The ultimate goal of eBurl is to provide sellers a resource for creating friendly URLs (eBurls) to their stores/auctions and supplying the sellers with detailed statistics about these eBurls, such as: Number of clicks, where the clicks came from, popularity of eBurl compared to others, and graphs detailing other information pertaining to the eBurl.

eBurl can also be used by non-sellers to simply share items that they have found on eBay, but with a much more compact, easy to use, URL.

A standard eBay URL looks something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TwitTV-com-awesome-typo-domain_
W0QQitemZ110200121711QQihZ001QQcategoryZ11153QQss
PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This is the eBurl for that same auction:
http://eburl.net/twittv

There will also be an RSS feed of the popular eBurls for all the enjoy :)

SO check out www.eBurl.net, test it out, and have fun!

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