URL Shortening» (by Eric Herberholz)

Overview: URL Shortening, in TechEncyclopedia - 'Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are many free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL, convert it to a short name and perform the redirection for the user when the short URL is clicked. URL shortening can be used when sending extremely long URLs in e-mail messages or chat rooms, because the URL is often broken up by the time it reaches its destination. The single string of characters is turned into multiple lines and no longer serves as a clickable link.'

• URL Shortening in the Yahoo! Directory, an example of Redirects, in Google Directory's Redirects(in PageRank order)

• url tagged items, at my del.icio.us - examples:

• Shorten web addresses and pass them on

• is.gd - Instructions

• abbrr - abreviador de urls

• is.gd Creator :: Firefox Add-ons

• is.gd URL Shortener - The Shortest URLs Around

• Xrl.in - Really Tiny Links

• Snipurl / Snurl / Snipr - Snippetty snip snip with your looong URLs!

• Xrl.in About

• URLthat | URL Shorting

• Welcome to Lil Url

• Tiny URL - Shorten Your Web Address URL

• lil’url

• lil´ URL Generator

• TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL

* an item in My Annotated Tag Cloud (A-List»): High-level topics / tags, that are important to me, that are linked to individual documents, on that subject. Sort of like having a personal Wikipedia - a subsidiary of My_System»
(shortcut: is.gd/xyz)

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