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Re:Ask HN: Review my attempt to create a non-misleading url ... by imagii on Friday July 02, 2010 @10:47PM (#1483091)
input:

http://www.twitteraccounthacking.com/hackmeplox ; http://www.facebookaccounthacking.com/hackmeplox

output:

http://p4ge.in/twitter/t ; http://p4ge.in/faceboo/u

It's an interesting concept, though it's not without its potential abuses.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my attempt to create a non-misleading url ... by fizz972 on Saturday July 03, 2010 @04:28PM (#1484378)
It is not supposed to be safer - it's only purpose is to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.
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