boooom!

http://b.oooom.net is now live! This is the rewrite and proper deployment of my old quickjump thing I had on jamesoff.net.

Yes, it’s just another URL shortener :P

b.oooom.net supports redirect pausing, where you can see the URL you’re about to be sent to before you actually go there. You trigger it by adding /pause to the end of the URL (e.g. http://b.oooom.net/70/pause). You can save your pause setting in a cookie (I promise it’s not evil) so that all URLs are paused automatically - good for work!

URLs can also be marked NWS by the person adding them (and only them) which will pause on redirect every time with a warning that it’s dodgy material (also good for work). Of course, you can set a cookie to skip the NWS warning at home.

You can shrink URLs by putting them into the form on the website or by hitting http://b.oooom.net/shrink/<your url>.

I shall shortly create eggdrop and irssi scripts to make it easier to do URL shortening by IRC.