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J.mp is Bit.ly in new, shorter clothes
Bit.ly dominates the URL shortener market due to its position as the default URL shortener on Twitter, but its features also measure up well against competitors. One area where Bit.ly loses out, though, is in the length of its base URL. Bit.ly is one more character than tr.im or ow.ly and two more than u.nu. Bit.ly is addressing that (relatively small) weakness by introducing j.mp, which is just a shorter version of the Bit.ly everyone already uses.
J.mp has everything Bit.ly has, except the slot as Twitter default. Link tracking, history and user accounts can all be carried over from Bit.ly just by logging into J.mp with the same username and password. In fact, the two services are so connected that every Bit.ly link can be changed into a J.mp link, just by changing the base URL. If you really need those two extra characters on Twitter, you should definitely give J.mp a shot.
[via Mashable]
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Subscribe to commentsAustenSep 5th 2009 3:26PM
Okay, this has gone to far. How many different ways can you shorten a URL? I mean, okay. So there are a couple of "competing" url shortening services. Great. So maybe we can do the one blog post comparing them all and then be done with it for life?
I mean seriously, "one character shorter" is a feature of a URL shortener?
How about everybody just shortens URLs the way they want to and talk about things that are actually important - like stuff you, um, download.
URL Shorteners shorten URLs, we get it. Now lets move on.
Money MikeSep 5th 2009 6:31PM
Austen, I agree with almost everything you said, but I don't like that you shortened the word "too" to start it off.
This whole url shortening thing is just dumb. Do people really care about this?
FloSep 5th 2009 3:30PM
I prefer hugeurl.
HalfAznSep 5th 2009 4:33PM
I do like longurl.org which you can put any short url in and it tells you where it takes you.
ddubSep 5th 2009 11:46PM
worst app ever! douche bags everywhere will be doing this crap everywhere.
JiSep 6th 2009 2:36AM
At least j.mp makes sense lol.