What better place to put the "To Do" list than right here on the blog. That's really 'putting it out there' so to speak. A lot of this comes from reading a few articles that have reviewed many of the url shortening services out there. Many of these services have great features, most have terrible (read long) domain names, but everyone seems to be missing something. So, while we can't be everything to everyone, since we are the shortest .com url shortening service out here, we are going to try and incorporate all the features a url shortening service should have.
So here goes...... (deep breath)......
Bookmarking - URLs need to be shortened via a toolbar bookmark button
Customization (already done) - but we're going to tweak it so that if you just type in words we'll fill the spaces with hyphens, so "map to my house" becomes xr.com/map-to-my-house
API -- half done and we'll release what we have very soon.
Trust -- you need to be able to use your own domain. Gotcha. We'll tell you how shortly.
Stats - ok, this is the biggie. Voted the feature to stay on the "to do" list the longest.
Preview -- you need to be able to just add "preview" in front of the xr.com link so that you can see the destination URL as well as static screenshot of the destination website.
Short URL -- well, we win for having the shortest .com domain being used for a url shortening service, but we have seen two letter domains combined with two letter country codes so they beat us by a character. Not to be defeated, we're shopping for a 1 letter domain to combine with a two letter country code. Can't really get much shorter than that, and we've not seen it done by any url shortening service yet.
Top-Frame on/off - we think the top frame is useful, but let's give you the ability to turn it on and off.
Private Label - after we let you use your own domain, would you like to have a private labelled top frame? We think so.
Earn Cash -- optional, but why don't we figure out a way for us all to earn some money?
Anything else? email us at info at xr.com and we'll add it to the list!
So here goes...... (deep breath)......
Bookmarking - URLs need to be shortened via a toolbar bookmark button
Customization (already done) - but we're going to tweak it so that if you just type in words we'll fill the spaces with hyphens, so "map to my house" becomes xr.com/map-to-my-house
API -- half done and we'll release what we have very soon.
Trust -- you need to be able to use your own domain. Gotcha. We'll tell you how shortly.
Stats - ok, this is the biggie. Voted the feature to stay on the "to do" list the longest.
Preview -- you need to be able to just add "preview" in front of the xr.com link so that you can see the destination URL as well as static screenshot of the destination website.
Short URL -- well, we win for having the shortest .com domain being used for a url shortening service, but we have seen two letter domains combined with two letter country codes so they beat us by a character. Not to be defeated, we're shopping for a 1 letter domain to combine with a two letter country code. Can't really get much shorter than that, and we've not seen it done by any url shortening service yet.
Top-Frame on/off - we think the top frame is useful, but let's give you the ability to turn it on and off.
Private Label - after we let you use your own domain, would you like to have a private labelled top frame? We think so.
Earn Cash -- optional, but why don't we figure out a way for us all to earn some money?
Anything else? email us at info at xr.com and we'll add it to the list!
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