Those guys at Logos are starting to get creative!
Ref.ly, a URL-shortener for Scripture was launched recently and links directly Logos’ Online Bible.
It’s neat that it interprets easily a bible passage and automatically shortens it.
Phil Gons, who works for Logos, provides an example:
Don’t worry about trying to figure out which Bible reference abbreviation to use—ref.ly recognizes almost every conceivable form you throw at it. So you can share Matthew 11:25–26 in any of these ways:
- http://ref.ly/Mt11.25–26
- http://ref.ly/Mt11.25f
- http://ref.ly/Mat11.25f
- http://ref.ly/Matt11.25f
- http://ref.ly/Matthew11.25f
Is this something you can see yourself using?
I suppose one of the questions I have is whether it’s actually necessary or just a neat little tool.
It’ll be interesting to see if they continue to build out the service and add more features.
Is it dynamic or do you have to generate it? it would be really great if you could type in http://ref.ly/3jn1-2 and it just kinda work…
After some tests, unfortunately: "http://ref.ly/numbers10:12" doesn't work…they've still got some work to do.
yeah, it broke a few times for me.
You can either generate the links from the site OR you can just type them out yourself. The examples from the post show that we actually support numerous versification. So, for example, the numbers link you were trying to generate could be done:
http://ref.ly/Nu10.12
http://ref.ly/Num10.12
http://ref.ly/numbers10.12
The key is to use a "." instead of ":"
Hope that helps.
I can see that being really useful
I actually think that's a tremendously useful tool … will stop me from having to click four or five times to get to my ESV for a URL to post … especially handy when you want to throw out a link to scripture in the chatroom at http://www.newspring.cc/webcampus
integration!
It seems a useful tool and I will have to try it out.
how's DTS?
I think I might use it. If I'm tweeting verses at some point, it's a load easier than trying to squash it down under 140 characters!
that's hawt
It's a neat tool but personally I don't use twitter to read the Bible. I understand people have favorite verses or want to give inspiration to others but people who tweet verse after verse after verse are spammers in my book. I'm just as happy to unfollow someone who fills my tweetdeck with Bible verses as I am someone who wants me to know the status of their hair day. I think most of the 500 people I follow use twitter for networking, sharing ideas and content, and announcing blog posts or other relevant material to our niche (church planting, small group discipleship).
Also, they don't have HCSB which is going to be the standard translation in 5 years because of its readability, accuracy and lack of doctrinal bias.
Okay, so this comment sounds really negative…I'm sorry…I guess I should've just said, "I probably won't use it too much
Wow. I thought I was the first to be working on something like this…
Interesting way how they build the links.
DOH!
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Hmmm…I guess I have to stop my freelancer on my dev project too…good to see work in this area!
Do you know for when this is perfect? For when I'm in live chat during church online at http://www.liquidchurch.com as a ministry participant. With live worship chat running so fast, having a tool like this will tangibly save the time to go to another window with bit.ly or is.gd to set-up a link shortcut to a scripture verse that was mentioned in the sermon just moments ago or referring to another verse that is relevant in worship chat makes all the difference — then copy/paste back into the chat window.
Tons of other reasons to use it too.
word!
you can make your own shortener… no stopping you…
True, there can be as many Bible shorteners as there are Bible translations!
But I'm thinking that there might be some other twists for this that would be useful to have in a similar service. If you can think of any, let me know!