Aruna Labs Blog

Many of you will have heard the buzz lately about the new Facebook F8 platform. Why all the fuss? you may ask. Facebook is the fastest growing social networking application on the net with 25 million users and over 100,000 new users per day. Yes, you read that right, 100,000 new users every single day. This platform is amazing in several ways but mostly because it is unique in the ability to share information with people’s ‘natural’ networks (i.e. their real friends).

The big news in the last couple of weeks was the opening up of their platform and technology. Now applications can be integrated with Facebook and we are here to offer the new Aruna URL Facebook application.

Current Features

Aruna URL Facebook app is there for when you are using facebook and want to make a short link / URL. Maybe you have a long link that is unwieldy that you would like to share, email or message to your friends or co-workers. Aruna URL will be standing by right inside of facebook for you to make that short link.

Add to Facebook

To add Aruna URL to Facebook:

1. Sign into Facebook
2. Click on the button below:

We have several new features planned for Aruna URL Facebook, you will get the upgrades automatically as they are implemented (assuming you have Aruna URL added in Facebook!).

We hope you find Aruna URL handy!

Screenshots

We now have the Aruna URL Google Gadget available for you to put on your personalized page at iGoogle.

To add Aruna URL on iGoogle click on this button…

To all developers who are looking for a simple URL shortening service that is free and will integrate into your application. Look no further. Today we have released the Aruna URL API just for you.

Instructions are here.

Go create your applications with Aruna URL shortening service, it is free.

Today we launched our Aruna Labs custom HTML widget. You can now make short URLs directly from your blog or website. We have four colors on offer to start (more colors coming later) to be able to match your website.

Just select the color you want. Then copy the HTML code and paste that into your website. Done.

Here are some screenshots.

Of course you can still use Aruna URL from the web or Yahoo widgets as usual too.

We have another widget rolling off the presses here at Aruna Labs. Today we are releasing the Aruna URL Yahoo! Widget. This widget will allow you to make short URLs or web links from your desktop without having to go to the www.arunaURL.com website. Here are some screenshots:

Enter the URL that you want to shorten and then click “Make it small”

Your short URL / web link is given back to you. You can now copy it and then use it as you wish.

If you don’t have Yahoo! Widgets installed yet, we highly recommend it. There are over 4000 widgets that make your life on Mac or PC much easier.

Here is what the Yahoo! Widgets tool bar looks like (Aruna URL is the yellow one!)

To use the Aruna URL Yahoo! Widget:

1. Go to widgets.yahoo.com and install the widget software
2. Download the Aruna URL widget here (first unzip it, then double click the .widget file it to launch it)
3. That’s it! Go ahead and make URLs with ArunaURL on your desktop. It is free!

When you log into your Aruna Email, you will notice a couple of new services in the Zimlets section. In this post we will go over how to use Aruna URL.

Aruna URL is a simple but handy service that lets you turn an unmanageable or long web link (or URL) into a short link / URL. Here is how it works:

1. Click on the ArunaURL icon

2. Enter the long URL that you want to make short and click “Make It”

3. Your new short URL is displayed. You can now select and copy this link and use it anywhere you please. The new short link will go to the original link that you converted.

That’s it. You can use Aruna URL as much as you want. It is free.

You can also “right click” on the Aruna URL icon to get the About dialogue.

Of course you can always use Aruna URL from the website as well. It is also free and available at www.arunaurl.com.

On the back of our release of the Aruna Send Widget for Yahoo Widgets, we are glad today to spread our wings a little further. In order to enable our other services to be more closely integrated with Aruna email, we have developed two plug-ins (Zimlets) that will allow customers to use the following services directly from Aruna email in their browser.

1. Aruna Send Zimlet – Will allow users to send large files directly from their webmail in their browser. It is free, there is no sign up and it will allow you to send up to 100MB files.

2. Aruna URL Zimlet – You can convert long and unwieldy web links (URLs) into short easy URLs from the Zimlet or directly inside of emails by right clicking on any link.

We are also releasing the Zimlets to the community of 6 million other Zimbra users. The services that the Zimlets offer will be free and there will be no charge for the Zimlets themselves. Zimbra uses must contact their Zimbra email server administrator and ask them to install the Zimlets.

We are currently getting the project page and documentation ready. In the meantime, both Aruna Send and Aruna URL Zimlets are available for download immediately below.

We have also set up a forum where the community can make suggestions, report bugs and discuss the Zimlets. We will post the address to that very soon as well.

Download Aruna Send Zimlet Now!

Download Aruna URL Zimlet Now!

Note: Both Zimlets are still considered beta software. We have tested them, they are working and we have not found any major bugs on our ZCS environments. You should also test them in your configuration before deciding whether to enable them in your live production environment.

Have you ever tried to paste a long URL (web link) in your email and have it not work because it was on two lines? Or tried to SMS, MMS or Twitter a link that is too long? We have and it is downright annoying. We hated it so much that we created a solution that is suitable for business, one that is stable and going to stick around.

The new service is available as of today, it is called Aruna URL. It is very simple, you put any URL / link into the box, click go and it returns a small URL that you can give out, email to co-workers, staff, put on website or what ever you wish. When the other person clicks on the link they will be directed to the original link that you entered originally.

The web site is available immediately at http://arunaurl.com

We are also working on several widgets, gadgets, an API for developers, html snippets and other handy ways to use Aruna URL. We will update very soon on some of these as they go live.

In the meantime, enjoy Aruna URL. It is totally FREE!