New updates to Lyfe.net

I've implemented a few new features in Lyfe.net over the past few weeks, but I haven't really had time to sit down and clickty-clack out the hows and whys on my keyboard (until now).

Short Urls - We implemented a base 64 (as in a base 64 symbol set, not the encoding mime type), so now urls are weird looking and like 2-3 characters shorter! Thats how you can tell they're fancy. We shorten the URLs by working with a larger symbol set (0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_) instead of the expected base ten set (0123456789). This makes a number like 16000000 boiled down to z2G0. We do this for the sake of twitter, and other social networks where text space is vital. We have a test example script available here. Special thanks to Jeff for sassing up the code with bit tricks.

Habla chat - I implemented Habla for those of you who have questions. Im usually available at during the day. Just look for the chat box in the bottom right corner of the screen on Lyfe.net

Social network - Auto posting to facebook and twitter is fully implemented, however there are a couple of bugs with the signup i need to work out (when i get the time).

I will have more to update on Lyfe when i get some time, Unfortunately other projects (such as peoplebacon.com) are taking up a great deal of my time. Oh, and wedding planning has a tendency to monopolize time as well.

-Jim