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Tinyurl

You may remember that there are several technologies that all the cool nerds enjoy but which I do not: Firefox, Linux, Twitter, Google Reader…  Here’s a new one: tinyurl.

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8 Responses to “Tinyurl”

  1. Nick Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    The reason?

  2. scott Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    It obscures the destination, for one thing.

  3. Nick Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    If I may suggest, you can actually turn on a feature with TinyUrl, such that when you click on the link, it will take you to a preview page where it will tell you where its going before you go there.

    TinyUrl obviously can be overused, but in some circumstances is quite useful. Obviously, microblogging services like Twitter depend on it for sharing links with limited characters.

    However its also very useful for sending links in emails, where often times email programs will insert line feeds in the middle of links making them hard for people to follow.

  4. scott Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    Oh, I know, I know. It definitely has a use. It’s just that I’ve never used it and somehow I’ve managed. Meanwhile I see this tinyurl urls and think “I can’t get any info about where it’s going unless I click…”

  5. David Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    It’s great for Rickrolling people!
    http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

  6. scott Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    I rest my case :)

  7. TrueBlue Says:
    December 18th, 2008

    I was thinking of you the other day. I was showing GR to a colleague who was collecting their RSS feeds in a browser. After I showed them how I use Google Reader, they said, “wow, how did I not know about this?”. He is now a GR user.

  8. snabby Says:
    December 19th, 2008

    What about Google Maps’ street view? Are you using it? They’ve done an incredible job of covering huge swaths of the world. I love how you can walk yourself down streets and look 360 degrees whenever and wherever.

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