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TinyURL made long and cumbersome URLs manageable by providing them with a short, or tiny, if you will, alias. So if you wanted to link to news articles, or forum postings, you could do so a lot easier with TinyURL’s help. It made things that much easier. So now we have a new development in the TinyURL world called Tinydb. Tinydb takes the same concept or making burly things more manageable, but instead of applying it to URLS, Tinydb applies it to data. The idea is to provide an API for reading and writing bits of data. This, in turn, serves as a platform for Twitter apps and javascript widgets to be written. The site includes detailed instructions and a web form to create your Tinydb. All data are stored as TinyURLs of course.
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“Jason labs.laan.com) and Kortina (kortina.net) built tinydb at appengine hackathon nyc after CC (also of labs.laan.com) wanted to send structured data along with a tinyurl.
tinydb.org's goals are:
1. Provide a simple API for writing and reading small chunks of data from anywhere.
2. Serve as a platform upon which twitter applications and javascript widgets can be written.
3. Circumvent crossdomain.xml in interesting and creative ways.”
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Tinydb is an innovative use of TinyURLs. It provides a way to write and distribute chunks of data that can be accessible from anywhere.
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Will Tinydb be as successful as TinyURL? What about hacking and bugs? Is it not susceptible to these?
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