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September 3, 2009 – 5:59 pm
BIT.LY is gaining dominance in the short url world, I used to use tinyurl.com and many of my server side apps in perl still use it due to the availability of Perl Modules for tinyurl to make it all happen, but when making short URLs by hand I prefer http://url.ie or short.ie for perma shorts. But because my privoxy is having a bad day with twitters link sniffing effors of the past 24hrs it has focused my attention on bit.ly URIs.
Did you know that if you add a + to a bit.ly link you get directed to stats it gathered on the short links usage! I’m glad they do this but I wish they had told me. And before you ask me to RTFM i got bumped to bit.ly by apps and twitters contracts and never altered my privacy permissions during this change over. Anyways be aware bit.ly is tracking, be careful what you shorten and when you do, have a look at its traction.
example: turn http://bit.ly/uhVII into http://bit.ly/uhVII+ by adding a plus sign to the end and go visit your new url.
some of my fav short urls
http://url.ie/777 http://url.ie/BHG http://url.ie/1916 http://blip.fm/~brian &http://blip.fm/~cowen
Tags: short url