Comments on: Bit.ly, a new URL shortener, launches, but I’m not going to use it. Yet.

By: videokeblog

videokeblog — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:56:12 +0000

There’s a fairly new one, that uses Twitter username as part of the short URL.

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:17:24 +0000

@mike Ah, but a bookmarklet isn’t the same as an extension. I can’t right click and say “shorten this link”. I have to GO to the link I want to shorten, THEN click the bookmarklet, THEN wait for the service to shorten it, THEN copy it to the clipboard.

TinyURL Creator does all this for me in one click, saves a TON of time and effort. That’s why I love it.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:14:11 +0000

@josh there’s a bookmarklet so I guess, “yes”…

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:21:44 +0000

Mike, does turo.us have a Firefox addon?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:48:20 +0000

http://turo.us has been doing all of that for months…

You just need to sign up as it got over-run by people “abusing” the service.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:15:05 +0000

P.S. Here are other URL Shorteners:

http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/72157602178338004/

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:08:04 +0000

Chris, that’s a very good point. Fluid.app is very, very cool, and I had completely forgotten that it can shorten URLs natively. Thanks!

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:04:06 +0000

Fortunately Fluid.app offers this functionality natively. Not like that matters necessarily, but thought I’d point out that at least @iTod is thinking about this.