You may or may not have noticed the little addition to the side bar. It's a tool from TinyURL that allows you to put in a long, nasty URL and it will make it small. That may not be thrilling to you but it is pretty cool. The benefit is more obvious if you use Twitter and get your post maxed out by a long URL.
I'm not sure how well it works so I'm going to try it now. I just looked up a story about the Tongan Volcano. I found a cool video I haven't seen before and thought it would make a good trial link.
The original link was as follows.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-ml5uolY9rFI/
underwater_volcano_erupts_off_tongan_coast/
The new link is below.
http://tinyurl.com/cwc3wm
Not bad, eh?
By the way, bit.ly and tr.im are two more url shrinkers. Pretty nice stuff.
Gordonfreece
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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