Vir.AL - Mass URL Shortener. With Their Own QR Code Trick, Bit.ly Eats Google’s Balls. Libya Revoking .ly Domains That Don’t Adhere To Sharia Law - David M. Ewalt - The Geek Beat. URL4.eu. HURL Make long urls shorter. Powered by Google App Engine. Bi.gl, url shortener and more... Lnkby.me. URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use? Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting - Cligs. Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener To Stop Scams; Good Marketers Need Not Fear. Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener.
It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about any impacts this might have for good marketers who are not trying to scam people. Good news, on that front. To test things, I sent myself two direct messages from the @smx account that I oversee to my personal account at @dannysullivan. When these links arrived as direct messages, as viewed through the Twitter site, they were unchanged. When Twitter emailed me these messages, the links within them had been shortened as follows: From a marketing perspective, I wondered whether Twitter was stripping out my own URL shortening entirely. Introducing the dynamIt URL-shortening API | dynamIt blog. While using the Tweetie 2 Twitter client on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago, I realized the app developer saw fit to include the option of using any URL shortening service I might desire if the shortening service provided an appropriate API. API stands for Application Programming Interface. An API allows software to interact with other software.
Twitter clients use the Twitter API to implement features of Twitter and access tweets, Twitter uses the Bit.ly API to shorten links using the Bit.ly service, and we have made creative use of various APIs on sites like Columbus College of Art and Design (which uses the Google Calendar API to power its deep set of event and news listings).
Since dynamIt already has a URL shortener built into our site, all we needed was a suitable API. I was able to use the existing scripting to generate and store the shortened URL, and only needed to adjust how the shortened URL was returned for suitable API use. Welcome to bitly.Pro. I can haz me... funny URL ? Make Way for youtu.be Links. It's all the rage: link shorteners to ensure that those useful URLs you're sharing don't take up too much precious character count while also giving you an inkling of what you're about to click on. Well, we've just launched youtu.be as a shortener for YouTube video links -- and nothing but YouTube links -- so you can rest assured that when you see a link with this URL, you are indeed about to click on a YouTube video.
(Also, because the link contains the ID of the video you're going to see, developers can do interesting things like show you thumbnails, embed the video directly, or track how a video is spreading in real-time.) To see this feature in action, use AutoShare to link up your YouTube account to social networks like Twitter and Google Reader. Then, whenever you favorite a video on YouTube, for example, that action will get syndicated out to your network, who will see this shortened edition of the video's URL. Bit.ly Responds to Goo.gl and Fb.me With Custom URL Service. Urloid - Short URL Service (( Shorten a Long URL Into Words ))
Lincr - A new URL shortening service from the makers of LinkBunch - Notlong Free Short URL Redirection: Make a long URL notlong. A fast and simple url shortener! Oh that's Nice! Metamark - Free Short URL redirection - Make long URLs short. Snipurl / Snurl / Snipr / Sn.im - Snippetty snip snip with your looong URLs ...Short URL goodness since 2001. U.nu :: the shortest urls. period. VapURL - Disposable URLs (beta) - The disposable URL. Shorten any link. Share any image or file. - br.st! Tık•la / url shorter in best way / Fast • Easy • Short / Despite All The Angst Around Its Demise, Tr.im Will Hardly Be Missed. For all the angst around the demise of Tr.im, the fact is that there are way too many URL shortening services in the world and inevitably more will fall by the wayside. There simply is no need for more than a dozen services to make long URLs shorter (and that doesn’t even count services such as Su.pr or the Diggbar which incorporate a URL shortener as a feature).
Already, the market is consolidating around bit.ly, largely thanks to it being the official URL shortener adopted by Twitter (which switched from competitor TinyURL back in May). Currently, bit.ly makes up 79.6 percent of the short URLs on Twitter, according to stats kept by Tweetmeme. It is followed by TinyURL (with 13.75 percent), is.gd (2.47 percent), ow.ly (2.26 percent), and FriendFeed’s ff.im (1.92 percent). On Friday, before it shut down, Tr.im was no. 4 on the list, even with ow.ly. In other words, if bit.ly ever slips on the innovation front, it can easily be replaced. L.pr. RT.nu - A Shorter, Cooler URL. Su.pr - Drive More Traffic with Your Short URLs! LinkBunch - Put multiple links into one. Untiny. TwitClicks.com - Track your Twitter Advertising. Adjix. Shorten URL with URL Shortener for Internet Marketers. At Raven, we experiment a lot. We consider our projects as our own version of skunkworks. Sometimes the experiments are driven by mere curiosity, while others are meant to see how far we can push the boundaries of a service.
All of our experiments have one common element, problem solving. When we first created the kl.am URL shortener, we did it to solve a problem. At the time, there wasn’t an SEO friendly shortener that supported campaign variables (now referenced as tracking tags by Google). Campaign variables are great, because you can assign a source, medium, and name, like Twitter and/or Social Media Campaign. So campaign variables is the main reason we built kl.am, period. Several months after we debuted an SEO friendly URL shortener that supported campaign variables, many existing and new shorteners added them to their service. With the mass support of campaign variables, it wasn’t necessary for us to keep kl.am running. Spammers use of kl.am became epic.
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