Services are already doing some of this. TipJoy can do their own URL shortner, FriendFeed has ff.im, Posterous has post.ly, etc. This is getting pretty common.

Services are already doing some of this. TipJoy can do their own URL shortner, FriendFeed has ff.im, Posterous has post.ly, etc. This is getting pretty common. If you're not going to make your own, and are obsessed with shortness, though, we just launched our own shrinker: http://tinyarro.ws http://tinyarro.ws http://➡.ws/퐐 http://➡.ws/퐐