Tag: TINYURL

Tr.im, the popular URL shortener owned by Nambu, was apparently not popular enough for the company to see any future in it. Tr.im is shutting down, and links will redirect properly until at least the end of this year. The cost of development and server expansion outweighed the benefits to Tr.im's owners, according to a blog post, because users will never pay for shortURL services. Nambu also ...

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 ...

It's trendy to use the latest and greatest URL shortening services in IMs and Twitter postings, but clicking on a TinyURL is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. To avoid any nasty surprises, affiliate links, or other deceptive uses of TinyURLs, you can install a Greasemonkey script called TinyURL Decoder. Although the name of the script contains "TinyURL," that's not ...

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 ...

Everyone knows about the power of Digg. We've seen it first hand many times here at DLS with waves of Digg faithful pouring in when a hot story hits the feed. Today, they've taken the gloves off and come out swinging at other short URL and social sharing services with the new Diggbar. Apart from making it easy to submit items to Digg, the toolbar also integrates with Facebook and Twitter and ...

Sure, we've reported on some seriously miniscule URL shorteners before. Bit.ly and tr.im are both respectably lacking in length, and ought to work fine when you need to cram a link into a Twitter post. Tinyarro.ws takes the shrinking game to a whole new level, though, by using unicode characters to get even shorter addresses. Not only is the base link down to three characters and a dot -- ?.ws -- ...

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, ...

It looks like Digg is working on a StumbleUpon-like toolbar that lets users digg, bury, or find related stories while surfing the web. Veronica Belmont first spotted a screenshot of the toolbar on Flickr, and it looks like the folks at TechCrunch managed to track down some additional information about it. If that info is correct, here's how it works. Users will see a toolbar the toolbar pop up ...

New URL-shortening services start up all the time. To compete in such a crowded field, they have to distinguish themselves from the pack with a novel feature. For 1link.in, that's multiple links shortened into one, with one click to open each of the links in new tabs. There's also a password option, and the ability to register so you can keep track of all your saved links. One advantage of ...

URL shortening services like TinyURL are great if you're trying to convey a lot of information in a tiny amount of space. For example, if you want to share a link with your friends on Twitter. But if you're a cautious web surfer who prefers to know where a link will lead you before clicking, LongURL can help. All you have to do is copy and paste a shortened URL into the text box on LongURL, and ...

URL-shortening services are plentiful these days, but they're not all equal. There are a few key features we're looking for in our ideal URL-shrinker. We want a bookmarklet, to avoid needless copy-pasting. We want a short base URL for easy Twittering. There's also the ability to custom-name your URLs, so you can tell them apart and they make sense to the people you're sending to. Bit.ly has all of ...

TinyURL is the grandaddy of URL shortening services. Want to take a long URL and squeeze it into an easy to email, tweet, or otherwise share package? Just plop it into TinyURL and the service will spit out a short string of characters you can share with others. But historically those characters have been pretty much meaningless, making TinyURL addresses difficult to remember. TinyURL recently ...