Friday, May 6th, 2005, 6:04 am
Shortening Links
Filed under: by Roy Schestowitz at 6:04 am
Long URL‘s (addresses) break consistencies in mail and news clients, as well as on the Web. A URL exceeding the standard line in length cannot be wrapped as it would cause a conflict; layout is compromised instead. Several sites offer tools that produce short permanent aliases to long addresses.
- The first such site, which I discovered long ago is www.makeashorterlink.com. Evidently, it is quite a long URL in itself.
- A very popular site among newsgroups subscribers is tinyurl.com
- Dr. Scott Tobkes has just informed me of another such service: snipurl.com
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