{"id":2431,"date":"2009-05-07T23:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2010-08-24T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:45:54","slug":"after-100-days-of-unfakeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/2009\/05\/after-100-days-of-unfakeit\/","title":{"rendered":"after 100 days of unfake.it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there!<\/p>\n

I have to thank you! All of you, using unfake.it<\/a> as URL shortening service!<\/p>\n

It’s been 100 days<\/strong>, since I faked\u00a0the\u00a0first URL with unfake.it<\/a> – my very own URL shortening service. I started this project, ’cause I always forgot the names of all the other URL shortening providers, so I very quickly wrote my own application, which now is used every day by lots of users.<\/p>\n

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What began for my personal use only, has now become a huge and important project. A few\u00a0days after the initial launch – and even without heavy announcement, the first people\u00a0started using\u00a0unfake.it<\/a> to shorten URLs. Using the bookmarklet<\/a>, some friends and co-workers started using unfake.it<\/a> and spreading the URL all over the world.<\/p>\n

Then, I implemented an API<\/a> and\u00a0wrote a standalone WordPress plugin<\/a> to shorten URLs for new blog postings before sending them to Twitter<\/a>. Since March, this plugin is downloaded and installed on new WordPress blogs almost every day a couple of times, which really makes me proud. Today, several co-workers as well as absolutely unknown users all over the globe\u00a0are using\u00a0my plugin. And there’s an huge number of hits per day:<\/p>\n

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Then, I implemented the magic preview function<\/a> with thumbnailed images of the destination websites. Then I wrote a facebook application to add faked URLs and their thumbnails to your facebook profile. Those are just toy-like features, but I relly like them – as well as lots of users.<\/p>\n

Some facts of what has happened so far (or is happening):<\/p>\n