Traceurl API

I got a request about a public API (Application programming interface) for Traceurl.com. I already had simple API used by my own Google-Gagdet. The Traceurl.com API provides a set of operations to directly access the Traceurl.com services. It is based on simple HTTP GET requests and returns data in the JSON format.

I wrote short document and some examples, so if you're interested in developing a widget or to integrate Traceurl.com into your application please drop me an email and I'll happily provide the documentation.

Traceurl new functionality

Finally after months of promises I made an update of the Traceurl.com website. Now you can upload documents and trace accesses to this documents. The documents are stored in the very popular Box.net service. The new functionality is not yet finished and should be considered as beta. If you run into problems please let me know...

More about the idea

True to the motto 'user generated content' everybody in the 'word wide web' acts as an active editor. Either by having an own webpage or blog, by sharing bookmarks and joining chatrooms or forums. All the more it becomes interesting what happens to the content we make available in the internet. Don't you ever wonder how often and from where your contributions are accessed?

Traceurl.com resolves this concern. Once an URL is registered at Traceurl.com it is on a watch. This means that you can monitor whether an URL you have sent by email or posted to a form is accessed or not. The recorded access data allows analysis about the when and from where the accesses have taken place. Thereby one can estimate how interesting an URL is to the users and whether the URL has been forwarded.