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Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Free Microsoft Points — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:58:38 -0000

I should try some of those just as jokes.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Jeremy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:28:10 -0000

I found this new URL shortener that allows the user to shorten multiple urls at a time and some other unique features. its the only one i use right now. check it out if you wanna. http://myurlz.com

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Jeremy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:27:57 -0000

I found this new URL shortener that allows the user to shorten multiple urls at a time and some other unique features. its the only one i use right now. check it out if you wanna. http://myurlz.com

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

John Mate — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:39:00 -0000

why not just use ohurl.com? haha

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

haqu — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:32:59 -0000

After trying to use several popular URL shorteners, I decided to make my own. It is fast and clean, with simple stats -- http://go2.st

Feel free to suggest new features and improvements (twitter: @haqu)

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Nile Flores — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:57:15 -0000

instead of those, get a free script and make your own like PHPurl that makes http://re-url.me

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Madsea — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:40:59 -0000

count me in! lol

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Justin Smith — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:39:48 -0000

How lazy have we become that we cannot simply type in the full URL anymore.
But to add 'lolcatism' to our links? Egads.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

David D. — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:33:02 -0000

Another interesting one if http://www.Fyin.com - it has some interesting features, especially from a b2b standpoint.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

AMavenGrace — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:30:41 -0000

Never heard of URL shorteners before. So they're used for jokes among techies and useful in posting because although it is much shorter than the original URL displayed when your on the page you would like people to link to it still works? Also good for sending msgs of limited length ei Twitter? I'm still not sure I get it, but interesting. More articles on this subject would be cool....
Side note*
Is shorteners even a proper English word? Or is it just tech speak?

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

netlatch — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:50:36 -0000

Krumlr.com, though not weird, has been URL shortening for almost a year with Twitter and yet to have been mentioned on TechCrunch. Krumlr does this with a dragable toolbar link and also bookmarks the page for you in your Krumlr profile. Krumlr provides rankings and stats with a fun follow-me, follow-you interface and has thousands of current "TweetMarks" to explore.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

sergi_bosch — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:53:45 -0000

you know what? i just spent about 20 minutes trying to find this article using your search. i glanced at it earlier in the day, and remembered that it spoke of an app for url shortening that had something to do with a pig. so i searched combinations of these keywords: "url tiny tinyurl url shortening pig" - almost always using pig. my point: should we be using associations when we do keywords - like pig/bacon? anyway, i'm jazzed to be using bacn'me comment on the following mash article tonite: http://bacn.me/43a (note: could not paste that url from bacn'me --- had to type it in - (ff, 3.0.10). peace

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Eddie Bovak — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:42:55 -0000

What about URL Compressor: http://ur.lc It's EULA rocks!

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

rowiro — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:24:51 -0000

Thanks for the info - I've been using http://twitPWR.com for a while. Maybe time to change...

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Jonas Lejon — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:06:38 -0000

I love http://to.ly it's simple and has a nice api

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playboypaul — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:42:21 -0000

thanks 4 tha post, i use ow.ly for my shortner only because it monetizes ur link with a small google ad 4 u

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Magnus — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:32:18 -0000

Might be funny using one of these together with http://letmegooglethatforyo... -

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

mark — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:28:55 -0000

don't forget mother's day next week
http://happymothersday.iwou...

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Ernie Mosteller — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:05:36 -0000

What happens when you make a Huge URL, then plug it into tinyarro.ws ? Will it explode?

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

MarcM — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:04:46 -0000

Don't forget http://www.socuteurl.com/

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

SumeetNaik — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:47:08 -0000

i'll try the huge url.. Seriously though u.nu is my choice when it comes to url shortening..

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Michael — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:43:12 -0000

I like http://skz.me... Apparently its supposed to mean squeeze me, but I think it looks like skeezy, lol.
The lolcat one is my fave, tho.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

helen — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:43:30 -0000

rolf
helen.giang@ryerson.ca

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Jens Swelson — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:38:00 -0000

The Dutch http://kots.nu/ is funny. "Kots" is Dutch for vomit and "nu" means now.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

Thomas — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:15:30 -0000

My favourite is bit.ly because there I can track how many people really clicked on that link!

Very interesting to see that way how many people get to your site from twitter for example!