Scenedipity provides an algorithmic url shortening service for checkins, menus, and profiles. Short urls can be useful in a variety of contexts including: email, on business cards, IM, text messages, or short status updates.

Menus have a direct short url of the form:

http://scndp.it/{restaurant-username}

Our blog entries have a short url of the form:

http://scndp.it/b/{blog-entry-id}

Checkins are a little trickier. The general form always begins with :

 http://scndp.it/g 
 

More importantly, these links have a mathematically calculated short url of the forms:

http://scndp.it/g/{user-id} 
http://scenedipity.com/streets/username

This form returns all of the checkins for a given day:

http://scndp.it/g/{checkin-date} 
http://scndp.it/g/5HH
 resolves to 
http://scenedipity.com/streets/06-19-13

This form returns all of the checkins for a given day:

http://scndp.it/g-{checkin-date}{user-id}
http://scndp.it/streets/username/06-19-13 

http://scndp.it/g-{checkin-date}{checkout-date}
http://scndp.it/streets/06-12-13/06-19-13 

current number of days since epoch: 15875
Base58 representation  of current number of days since epoch: 5HH

* Base58 is used to compress the checkin-date and the checkin-times using a mix of letters and numbers.