http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

Post by Pistos2 » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 6:06 PM UTC

_dan wrote: post #54

catone wrote: post #45

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I disagree with that statement. Even before the rise of microblogging, URL shorteners were helpful in certain situations. Which URL would you rather paste in an email for readability's sake: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Oak... or http://tr.im/Gw8B In context, the recipient should have no problem anticipating the URL's end point (i.e., you probably just wrote something like, "here are some directio…

The former. Even though it's 355 characters, at least it tells me it's a Google maps link. Which the shortened version doesn't. There are some situations where URL shortening is arguably useful. But there's absolutely no reason why "microblogging" should be one of them.

Post by mauriez » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 6:53 PM UTC

mauriez wrote: post #102

thats old news. Dot TK had that for ages. go to http://tweak.tk/ and read the technical part. They do it better though http://tk./abcde is http://abcde.tk which is even on character shorter ;)

Post by 0-0 » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 7:15 PM UTC

Post by gregmalcolm » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 7:29 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #76

TheProkrammer wrote: post #74

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No workie on Chrome and IE.

Public, covert racism?

Post by dzohrob » Thu, Dec 03, 2009, 8:55 PM UTC

furyg3 wrote: post #31

bumblebird wrote: post #27

The fascination with url shorteners is really worrying and useless. Can we get past this fad?

Indeed. They're a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.