Re: URL Shortening
But there are occasions where a shortened url is desirable and / or necessary. Much as we may not want to be dictated to by sites such as twitter a shortened url can be useful in that context, much as I love the semantics of WP / BP urls.
So maybe an answer is to provide a shortening service for yourself on your own domain? After all, if your domain goes you’re leaving a whole bunch of dead links anyway! Would this work as a plugin?
Not that I can propose how to do this at the moment, but here’s wikipedia on url shortening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening
