Tag: SHORTURL

Digg users recently noticed some interesting new behavior related to Digg's shortURL service, the Diggbar: instead of shortlinks going directly to their destinations, logged-out users who click them will now land on the corresponding Digg.com page. Sure, that's a lot of new traffic for Digg, but it's problematic because the change was never announced, and users who generate Digg links might not ...

The 140-character limit on each post is one of the most appealing things about Twitter, but it can also be one of the most annoying. That's why uri.is was created. You can write as much as you want and click to post to Twitter, and uri.is will link to your full text via a shortened URL instead of cutting you off. Sometimes you have something that's too long to tweet, but not long enough or ...

With all the URL shortening sites that have been popping up lately -- and even services that let you make your own -- I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at the link-shrinkers we've covered in the past here at Download Squad. Some of them are legitimately useful, while some of them are complete novelties that you'd only break out as a joke. You'll also have to forgive some of ...

Seems like everybody's starting their own url shorteners these days. There's the Diggbar, Amazon's shorturls, and a whole plethora of other shorteners all competing with one another. Well, now you can have your very own -- for a fee -- from awe.sm, which is a pretty great shortlink service in its own right. The service offers a hosted URL shortener on a domain of your choosing, along with access ...

The field of link-shortening services is getting a bit crowded these days, with new ones popping up seemingly every week. U.nu is one of the latest contenders, and its attractively short and easy to remember base url might help it catch on. A U.nu link is way easier to type out or read to someone over the phone than the unicode characters offered by tinyarro.ws, for example, and it's shorter than ...

There are plenty of URL truncation options on the net already, and you've likely already got a favorite option like Is.gd or Snipr. Does the relatively new BurnURL provide anything that really makes it a compelling alternative? If you're a social surfer, then the answer is yes. When you "burn" an address, the service creates your truncated address and provides a standard HTML link, embed code, ...