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Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

re.p.ly — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:46:41 -0000

there is also a similar shortening service (just launched in beta) at http://re.p.ly/ or http://p.ly/

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

brianjesse — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:47:40 -0000

rp.ly was born on Marshall Kirkpatrick and Dave Winer's "Bad Hair Day" podcast in the wake of the tr.im and FriendFeed announcements. It's open source and the URL is RP.LY

REP.LY and RE.P.LY are two more recent uses of the same name.

The idea with rp.ly is to own and "brand" your short URLs the same way you brand your own links with your own domain name.

http://rp.ly is testing a WordPress plugin which lets you set up your own "vanity url shortener" for your WordPress blog tweets, check it out. :-)

Brian Hendrickson
brian@rp.ly

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

Vikram — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:55:59 -0000

As you said, its almost in the category of omg-yet-another-URL-shortener, but if used exclusively for sharing comments, this can as well become a brand for comment sharing!

Will take time to see how it shapes up. Would be watching it as its used more often.

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

sikku — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:36:24 -0000

Pretty innovative...

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

Brandon_Sheley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:34:52 -0000

I'll check this out

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

Sarah-Elizabeth Daly — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:24:41 -0000

Pretty cool