Ben,

Found your blog doing a google search for ‘ubiquity shortener is.gd’ hoping to find a command that similar to the built in tiny shortener.

I’ve recently joined Leo Laporte’s Laconica instance (http://army.twit.tv/ccheath) and really like it a lot.

One of our members created a knock-off of the twitter ubiquity command to post to the army. They basically changed very little, but the max length was set back to 140.

So after reading your post I had an idea.

I’ve already installed the is.gd firefox extension, and the twitter and army commands for ubiquity already tell you how many characters you have left. So I just right click the page, and create an is.gd link, then paste it into the ubiquity command. Ubiqity will tell me how many characters I have remaining.

I guess your command will probably save the right-clicking though.

Would you mind if we knock-off your command to use for army? I would like to try it out and see what I can do.

Cheers,
Chris