Comments on: U.S. Government Hops on the URL Shortening Bandwagon http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/14/government-hops-url-bandwagon/ International technology news, business & culture Sat, 26 May 2012 01:59:21 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: bendygirl http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/14/government-hops-url-bandwagon/#comment-429513 bendygirl Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:26 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=29012#comment-429513 Since the shortener was developed using Drupal contributed modules, it's not like the Gov't paid out thousands to a contractor to build this. They used a borrowed employee and worked with Drupal community members to get it up and running. As for why not gov/usda the point of having a shortener is to shorten lots of random gov't links. No one is typing in those links, they are automatically created and assigned a key. That key re-directs from the database to the original link. Perhaps down the road other agencies will look into using the shortener's code and make their own sites capable of shortening links, but until then, this is a pretty good alternative. Since the shortener was developed using Drupal contributed modules, it’s not like the Gov’t paid out thousands to a contractor to build this. They used a borrowed employee and worked with Drupal community members to get it up and running.

As for why not gov/usda the point of having a shortener is to shorten lots of random gov’t links. No one is typing in those links, they are automatically created and assigned a key. That key re-directs from the database to the original link. Perhaps down the road other agencies will look into using the shortener’s code and make their own sites capable of shortening links, but until then, this is a pretty good alternative.

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]]> By: Zee http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/14/government-hops-url-bandwagon/#comment-429493 Zee Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:31:03 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=29012#comment-429493 you're absolutely right...but this is the US government you’re absolutely right…but this is the US government

]]> By: Uncle Rousseau http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/14/government-hops-url-bandwagon/#comment-429481 Uncle Rousseau Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:55:24 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=29012#comment-429481 Wouldnt it be difficult to type in two periods? Wouldnt it be easier to type usa.gov/fda, usa.gov/ftc, usa.gov/dhs, usa.gov/irs, usa.gov/fcc, then you only have to remember that there are only two words usa and gov and they are separated by a period and the only other thing you have to remember is the most commonly used abbreviation of a government service. Wouldnt it be difficult to type in two periods? Wouldnt it be easier to type usa.gov/fda, usa.gov/ftc, usa.gov/dhs, usa.gov/irs, usa.gov/fcc, then you only have to remember that there are only two words usa and gov and they are separated by a period and the only other thing you have to remember is the most commonly used abbreviation of a government service.

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