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msplinks.com link generator

Note: Myspace recently changed the way they make msplinks. This tool prob’ly doesn’t work anymore…

A while back I mentioned that MySpace and msplinks do dirty things to links.

This bugs me a bit, so I’ve been trying to figure out ways to mess with ‘em. I’ve got nothing good so far, but in the process I noticed that MySpace doesn’t generate a new link for each address (like TinyURL, for example). Instead they encode the address in the msplinks url. So an address can be encoded into a msplink even if MySpace has never seen that address before.

While I was playing with msplinks, I created a converter. Put any URL into it, and it’ll spit out a msplinks address. I haven’t figured out anything particularly devious to use it for yet, but if you come up with something let me know.

Have fun kids :-)

As pointed out by some poser, MySpace sniffs referrers. If you click on an msplink on any website other than MySpace, it will redirect to MySpace instead of the actual target. This is prob’ly to keep people from using msplinks as a really annoying version of TinyURL…
This article was posted 5 August 2007 by Justin Hileman, and is filed under interweb, msplinks, MySpace, SEO and tools. If you have any comments, please contact me or leave a comment on this article.

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My name is Justin and I make the Internet. I'm @bobthecow on Twitter. I'm also a co-founder of Presentate, which is 100% awesome.

Projects

  • Manipulate Coda — A text manipulation plug-in for Panic’s Coda
  • coda-cli — Shell integration for Coda
  • FastTab for Coda
  • Color schemes for Coda (and SubEthaEdit)
  • PHP Docblock generator plug-in for Coda
  • Git integration plug-ins for Coda
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