bit.ly – URL Shortening Service
bit.ly is another web service like the popular tinyURL. You paste the long URL in the text box at bit.ly, optionally set a custom keyword and click on Shorten button to get the shortened URL.
For example, let’s say that I am researching on water purifiers and came across a page whose URL is http://www.eurekaforbes.com/products/healthylife/wpurifier.php. Now I want to be able to go to this link in the future without having to bookmark and by just typing out an URL. I can go to bit.ly, specify ‘aquaguard’ as the keyword and it will generate this URL which points to the same page: http://bit.ly/aquaguard.
bit.ly doesn’t yet have all the useful tools like a Firefox add-on or integration in Twitter clients like twhirl. A browser bookmarklet is available though. But with a good API to shorten, expand and extract URL info, I am sure bit.ly is going to replace tinyURL from its #1 spot.
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July 19th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Honestly, how many of these services do we need? There must be like 5 new ones every day. No doubt they come in handy for some things, but still…. I mean come on.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Well, it all depend on how useful these kind of services is to yourself. For more features like http://sn.vc could be different.