I’ve been playing around with the APIs for bit.ly a bit, and started mocking up a little application. Here’s a quick screenshot, I’ll outline my ideas afterward.

So far it’s just a Photoshop mockup, with some initial Flex work done for an AIR app. It’s at least started though. I thought if I made it public it might prompt me to see it through more quickly. My ideas for features follow:

• Shorten a long URL, or add an already shortened URL to be tracked (no shocks there).
• Display total clicks for each site over the thumbnail (as you can see in the mock-up).
• Open a thumbnail (button or double click, I’m not sure) to view detailed stats for a URL.
• Click the pie chart button to show aggregate data regarding total clicks on all URLs and ranked referrals.
• Export and import lists of URLs (for backup and restore primarily).

That’s the plan anyhow, we’ll see how it goes. I’ve got the data for individual items coming in correctly now, but there are some issues with how quickly the UI updates. And then there’s the issue of aggregating it all, though that shouldn’t be horrible. I’ll try to keep up to date on the blog as I go, and if anyone wants to test out early versions for me that’d be great, thanks!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm and is filed under AIR App, General.