I’ve got a lot of distractions these days, just a lot of things going on, and I like what Gary Vaynerchuk has to say (literally) about not being scared of being distracted.
It’s possible I might run into Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0 or a related event next week.
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Ha, I just wrote a post about self narration and Sarah Palin, and wanted to make a TinyURL to use it for Twitter and look what I ended up with …. http://tinyurl.com/sarahpalinstory
(turns out most of the custom aliases for Sarah Palin are taken .. no surprise - but I did get one - http://tinyurl.com/Xsarahpalin - too bad I don’t have anything as interesting to point my TinyURL too - oh well - right now my TinyURL sounds like the name of a prescription drug).
Turns out you can do that with any TinyURL you make - in essence - you have the start of a whole new set of domains you can get by giving them a “Custom Alias”. That can be super powerful.
I just make a TinyURL that says - my blog, Webmetricsguru.com, is the place you go when you want to learn about Web Analytics.
But what happens when someone else tries to do exactly the same thing? You can’t! Ha, I bet a few people I could name will be muttering “why did I think of that” when they read this.
I would rush and do the same for your name - before someone does it to or for you - and points it to a source you don’t want them to.
I think this is going to be big - very big - in a couple of weeks, once people figure out what to do with it.
One glitch though - you can only make one alias per url - I created one for MarshallSponder and pointed to www.theanalyticsguru.com and another one for NEWYORKART and pointed to my www.artnewyorkcity.com blog.
Ha! Double Ha, Ha. That’s pretty cool.
Hey, even if a domain is taken, a individual page can be aliased - provided you have a page that fits what you want to custom alias it for - I guess I could try it on some of my more important blog posts, etc.
Look, I tried to do a TinyUrl for “Art” and custom alias it back to www.artnewyorkcity.com but that one was already taken (try it - http://www.tinyurl.com/art) - darn, I wish I had that one! I don’t even think it registers who owns the TinyURL, and I don’t think there’s any way to transfer it to someone else (meaning you can’t sell it).
I guess I wasn’t the first person to think of this - but for sure, I will not be the last one.
I’m not sure how long the TinyURL custom alias was available - but I can tell you - this is a big deal.
TinyURLs are used ALOT.
Wow - so it’s come to this - the big internet providers are now stifling that creativity and consumption that spwaned Web 2.0, Social Media - they have now looked at us as “the enemy” and will attack users of their service with expulsion. Read Gizmodo’s Comcast’s 250GB Data Caps Now Official, Starting in October
Bad news for Comcast folks—the 250GB caps that were once rumored are now officially official and will start October 1 for residential customers. But, instead of charging you for every GB you go beyond that in a month, Comcast is getting a bit more byzantine—if you blow the cap twice in six months, they may terminate your service altogether.
Isn’t it strange that we live in a world where we’re encouraged to consume rich media on on hand, then we have the evil Comcasts of the world, trying to attack us for doing so. Then we have the Apples of the World who’ll bill us thousands of dollars a month when we travel internationally and use iPhones to download rich media, highly intensive bandwidth media.
It reminds me of how on one side, there are all the rules of medicine to protect life - so much so that someone can’t make many decisions about their own life - and at the other side of it - and at the same moment, the current adminstration sends soldiers to Iraq without body armor to be slaughtered in a war that was totally made up to we could take Iraq’s Oil (which we never really succeeded doing - we ended up destroying their oil capacity, to a large extent, instead).
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