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by kmod 5961 days ago
Interesting article, but I find the author's use of statistics to be quite bizarre...

[quote] Approximately 68% of URL shortening services were Stage 1 Compliant.

Approximately 56% of URL shortening services were exclusively Stage 2 Compliant. [/quote]

It seems from his numbers that he just meant to not include the word "exclusively", even though it was italicized. Also, I'm not sure what prompted the venn diagram with three sections "A", "B", and "A and B". Most of the regions (such as "A"-and-"A and B"-not-"B") are empty, for good reason.