TellDodo – Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
I had never heard of TellDodo until I noticed that somebody from there was leaving comments about the service on every blog post that mentioned the barcodes Google is putting in newspaper ads. Here is the post explaining Tell Dodo as it appeared on my site:
Think of it as a verbal equivalent of tinyurl. Google search returns 1000s of hits for any search term. Telldodo let’s you associate a unique key-phrase made of simple keywords with your URL. When you see a telldodo key-phrase in print, or on a billboard, or hear it on the radio, it’s a lot easier to remember than a complicated URL, at least until you get to your computer.
Another application: tag your photo web-site with a unique tag (example: our caribean cruise pics). Then you can tell your family and friends the key-phrase over the phone and they can retrieve the URL at telldodo.com
Cheers
Dodo
This, of course, is just a throwback to the old Netscape keywords, with the added annoyance of having to go to a web site to enter the “simple keywords.”
Sounds easy, right? Surely its easier than remembering a tinyurl. But it isn’t. The free service doesn’t allow you to pick a keyword. Instead, for lastpodcast.net, you have to remember “reality replica rice.” I kid you not. By the time you memorized that, you can memorize three URLs.
Also, by the time you have given somebody the URL for telldodo.com and the keywords, the poor recipient of this information is already at the verge of a breakdown, begging you to just give him the URL and tell him where to click.
Tell Dodo – dumbest web service, ever.
1 Comment