This blog post is designed to foster a technical and logistical discussion. In much the same way as the earlier QRpedia language discussion did. One of the most requested features in QRpedia is to have custom URLs. For example, the British Museum may want a URL of “bm.qrwp.org”. This has two main advantages. Better analytics. [...]
Nov 262011
Jul 272011

Summary Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. It’s annoying to users, and a pain in the arse to developers. This quick post talks about the problem and offers a solution. I’ve raised a bug with Twitter and I hope you’ll star it as important to you. Summary Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. [...]
Mar 312010

The Twitter Engineering Team have a set of text processing classes which are meant to simplify and standardise the recognition of URLs, screen names, and hashtags. Dabr makes use of them to keep in conformance with Twitter’s style. One of the advantages of the text processing is that it will recognise that www.example.com is a [...]




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