Foo9.net URL Shortening Service Online
Friday, March 21 2008
Back in October I created my own URL shortening service called Foo9.net. There are lots of them out there already — you can read my reasons for building one myself. Unfortunately, shortly after opening it to the public I had to close down because of spammers abusing the service.
I’m happy to say that Foo9 is back online now thanks to reCAPTCHA. Hopefully this will keep the spammers at bay for the time being.
Incidentally, I can’t say enough good things about reCAPTCHA. It took me fifteen minutes — from start to finish — to implement their captcha on the website. That fifteen minutes included signing up for an account, reading their docs, and adding it into my code. Awesome.
