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ShareThis - Sharing to Email, AIM, SMS, Social Networks and Soci. More tools to lengthen tiny URLs. To accompany Sunday’s look at Twitter tools that unmask shortened URLs, here are some utilities that reveal the true destination of shortened URLs outside of Twitter. I’ve shortened five URLs, including one YouTube link, with the five URL shorteners that were used the most in tweets within last 24 hours. And here are screenshots of how six tools expanded the links LongURL Mobile Exander This Firefox plugin displays a long URL after holding your mouse over a shortened address for a few seconds.

TheRealURL The other tools I tried all require you to visit their site and paste a short URL into a form. PrevURL Untiny ExpandMyURL.com url snoop LongURL This service provided the title of the destination page, a screenshot, and meta information — much more detail than the other tools: Here are some tools that I did not try out: If you want to have fun, try out the aptly named hugeURL and SoCuteUrl.com. To explore more URL lengtheners, bookmark my growing Delicious collection. Beautiful Word Clouds. Qapture | Design & Development. Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007. We have done it before: the 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity, and perspective. Now we have done it again—and better. Back by popular demand: here is iA’s next Web Trend Map: Download It! We figured that this would make a nice desktop background image as well.

So here are some wallpapers to download and replace that ugly Windows Vista crap or the boring blue Apple background image. We’ve also included a big A3 version and an OSX screensaver. What’s New? First of all, the new Trend Map features many more websites than the previous one. More Consistency: The different trend lines have been renamed, simplified and cleaned up. More Lines: The original raster (Tokyo metro map) has been substantially modified to fit the needs of an Internet Trend Map.

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