Wednesday, September 02, 2009
How URL shortening helps you.
Passing long URL’s to a friend or colleague can be a pain. Long URL’s can break when sent through email software and they’re hard to convey in person or over the phone.
Enter URL shortening – handy websites that convert your long URL into a much smaller version. Take the following link for Google Maps which is quite a monster.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Rogers+Centre,+Toronto,+Ontario&sll=43.642419,-79.387861&sspn=0.006017,0.008894&ie=UTF8&ll=43.641565,-79.389127&spn=0.006017,0.008894&t=h&z=17&iwloc=B
After running this URL through shortening the resulting URL is much easier to handle.
http://bit.ly/P6oVp
Go ahead and give it a try! You'll find shortened URL's are very popular on social networking websites such as Twitter.
Here are some URL shorteners to help:
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