Dec 5, 2012

Shorten that url!!

Whether you need to shorten that url to text it, or all those characters and numbers look messy... You can use a url-shortener to do the trick.  I use tinyurl for posting in a hurry, bitly to remember topics and share with co-workers, and goo.gl for work

goo.gl offers a free url shortener with click analytics publicly accessible to anyone.  Great service which requires login to your google account.  Also has a great Google Chrome Extension!

Tinyurl.com is a free url shortener - barebones basic, no account necessary but also no analytics.  The great feature of this site is that you can create a tinyurl button on your bookmars bar which automatically generates a tiny url based on the current url.

Source: TinyUrl


Bitly.com not quite the same as a url-shortener.  It is a free bookmark manager.  It allows users to bundle bitmarks together and send them via email, twitter, or facebook.  

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