It’s been a little while since we’ve posted an update to the blog, so excuse us while we shake out the dust.

We’re happy to announce that we have recently released a few updates to idek.net over the past few days.

• Tweeting Within Idek
  If you are logged into idek then you can tweet right from the url dashboard. This allows you to get your links out there quickly, especially if you usually leave idek open.
  
• More Access To URL shortening
  Something that also helps those who often keep idek open, you can now shorten a url from where ever you are within idek. Just look for the box at the top of every page, you can see part of it in the screenshot above. We will be tying this in more closely with tweeting in the near future too!
• Twitter Authentication
  No one likes to give their twitter password out; we’ve integrated directly with twitter so you don’t have to with idek.
• Tweet It Bookmarklet Improved
  If you aren’t aware, there are a few bookmarks that make using idek even easier. One of them, the Tweet It! bookmarklet, allows you to shorten a url and send a tweet directly from any webpage. This bookmarklet now uses Twitter authentication and we have fixed a problem that was preventing it from loading in safari.
• Manually Add Urls To Your Tracked Urls
  Have you ever created a url on another computer when not logged in? Well, now you can easily add that to your list of tracked urls by visiting the metrics page and clicking the star icon at the top right, it will automatically show up with the rest of your urls.
  
• /s or + For Metrics
  Speaking of the metrics page, you can now view it for any url by adding /s or + to the end of the url. This just makes it a bit easier for those of you who are used to bit.ly’s way of getting at metrics. (e.g. To get metrics for idek.net/6, you can go to http://idek.net/6/s or http://idek.net/6+)
• Much More
  There are a number of bug fixes as well, which is something we always try to slip in. Including fast loading of the individual metrics page for your idek links.

So check out the updates and let us know what you think. Thanks for using idek!

@covati