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Fur.ly provides an elegant way to shorten multiple URLs and create a "tour"
Fur.ly is a slick looking service that takes multiple URLs and spits back one short URL (I got http://fur.ly/1b3b when I tried it). When someone clicks your URL, they are directed to the first site, and they will see a Digg-like bar at the top of the screen.
The bar shows that you're currently viewing site "1 of 4," and it gives you Next/Previous buttons that you can click to switch to the next site. It has three text ad links on its right side, but they're pretty low-key and unobtrusive. The bar also provides a button for opening the current site in a separate tab.
One other thing that you'll see on the bar is a "view counter," which is the one aspect of the service that seems utterly broken. When I tried my newly created link, it said that it had gotten "3 views." When I tried it again, it said "5 views." It seems like they've got a bit of troubleshooting to do for that part.
One neat thing that you can do with Fur.ly is create "Web tours." If you want to quickly take someone through a whole bunch of similar sites (to show a client some design ideas, for example), you can just send them one tiny link, and they can work through the sites one by one.
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Subscribe to commentsPoor Wittle PhotogwaphersAug 6th 2010 12:29PM
Check out how I used fur.ly just yesterday:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/08/05/top-100-scripts-in-script-repository.aspx
DrakkenfyreAug 6th 2010 5:26PM
So sick of URL shorteners. It isn't two weeks before a new one comes up, and they all die eventually.
I especially don't like how with most of them you don't get to see the destination URL. So if you see bit.ly/12456, and click on it, you might be sent to gaysexhot.com.
This one might offer one more feature, but really, how long will it be around for?