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Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Incredible Shrinking URL

In the twitter world of 140 characters or less shrinking the URL is the new normal. Many longer URLs would not even fit in the allotted 140 space.

Why waste descriptive space on:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Premier-Diamond-Mine-1903-The-Big-Hole-Desk-Ornament_W0QQitemZ390025426110QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item390025426110&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262

Best know for this magical feat of compacting is http://tinyurl.com/
instead you can use
http://tinyurl.com/bgvqdb

We love the concept at http://doiop.com/ that allows you to choose the name for the compression to give it some context.
http://doiop.com/bighole

If you are seeking link tracking for your shortened URLs then http://www.dwarfurl.com/ might be a better fit. http://dwarfurl.com/cdcb6

http://twtr.us/twtr.html - Claims to be smallest tiny URL's on the planet http://tw0.us/aI

For a complete list of option: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/72157602178338004/



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