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Goodbye and Hello!

March 25, 2006

It is with sadness that we say goodbye to the classic PHP version of elfURL. I came up with the URL shortener while sitting at SuperNova last year. From idea to launch it took four days. Read about it here. Here is the old skin:

Now meet the new Big in Japan version of elfURL. Completely rewritten using Ruby on Rails we kept the previous features and added optional password protection for the stats. Rodrigo has a few more ideas including integration with the Tagyu API, but that is fairly low on our list. The new logo and css are by Dan Cederholm. Can you believe we have served up elfURL for more than 4,000,000 unique people? Woot! Here is the new skin:

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Uncategorized 

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