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Yeah, I could see this being useful. One drawback is that it takes away the original url - if I send my friend an un-highlighted CNN url, s/he can see it's fro
by aneesh 19y ago
Yeah, I could see this being useful. One drawback is that it takes away the original url - if I send my friend an un-highlighted CNN url, s/he can see it's from CNN.com, whereas you can't with a highlighted article.
- spydez 19y agoAgreed. I avoid clicking on tinyurl.com links for this very reason. And are long urls a big deal? I found a titanium spork the other day on Amazon, and my friends were fine with the giant honkin' link I IMed. On blogs, forums and the like, you can always hide the giant url behind some hyperlink text. The only good use of shortened URLs I've seen is in IRC channel topics.
- thorax 19y agoTiny URLs got a resurgence in a world of SMS and Twitter. (Full disclosure: I have a simple URL shrinking service myself, http://ri.ms http://ri.ms -- not pretty, but functional)