Jabbim DevBlog

Jabbim Team proudly announces the newest service – Jabbim robot Shorty. As you can guess from his name, his primary purpose is to shorten your long URL. This is very useful in Twitter and similar services. Try it and … you will love it!

Let's take a quick tour how to use him.

How to start with shorty

Shorty will speak with every XMPP/Jabber user (Google Talk included). Just add the contact shorty@jabbim.com to your roster. That's all. Really simple, huh?

How to use him to shorten long URL

Well, you will have to  make really good friendship with him. Just kidding. Shorty's not suspicious. Simply send him your URL as a chat message and he will reply to you immediately.

History and usage of links

You read well, Shorty remembers your shortened URLs and statistics of usage. You will see how much the link is used and you can use the short URL again and again. Simply write him message with text „last“ and you will get the list (which is empty when you start using Shorty, by the way).  That's very addictive!

How many people use Shorty?

The number of people depending on Shorty is growing day by day. Simply write him „stats“ message and he will praise himself.

That „jdem.cz“ URL is awful! How can I change it?

Don't worry, Shorty supports multiple „shortening engines“. You can freely choose the one you will use. List of currently offered engines is sent when you send „help engine“ message to Shorty. For changing an engine use e.g. „engine jabb.im“ message where jabb.im stands for shortening service. You can get currently used engine by simple „engine“ message sent to shorty.

Help, I'm lost!

Calm down, dusk is far enough. You can write „help“ message to Shorty or „help command“ where command stands for one of commands mentioned here. Or you can visit us in the multiuser chat (MUC) on jabber@conf.ne­tlab.cz and we will help you.

Try Shorty, it's for free and it's cool!

Tento článek byl publikován dne 7. 6. 2009 (Neděle) v 5.57 v rubrice Jabbim Weekly News, jabbim-dev EN. Komentáře můžete sledovat přes RSS 2.0 kanál. Můžete zanechat komentář nebo trackback z vašeho webu.