URL Shorteners

"If you like Bitly, here's a killer tip that Andrew Coen, Bitly's co-founder, recently shared with our team. You can actually shorten a link in just one step right from the address bar in any browser, even a mobile one. All you need to do is either enter "j.mp/" or "bit.ly/" before the address of the page you're on and Bitly will then automatically shorten it for you. What's more, if you're logged into Bitly and it's integrated with your Twitter account, you can tweet right off the page it refers you to." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"You can hardly walk through a few pages on the Web these days without bumping into some variety of URL shortener, sharing bookmarklet, or aggregation site that tries to show the most popular data. Bit.ly has become the shortener of choice for Twitter, with StumbleUpon and Digg having their own offerings in sharebar land. A lesser-known alternative is Sharein.com, which launched a while back, and hasn't had a whole lot of pickup, so far as I can tell. But in looking at the service, I see that ShareIn.com combines the information I've always liked about bit.ly, including statistics, with benefits I've liked on other sites, including individual user history and total share popularity across the network." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"Social serendipity service StumbleUpon began opening up its new URL shortening service this morning and we have 250 invites included below. StumbleUpon is great for two things: discovering fabulous new websites and getting waves of traffic sent to sites you publish. The new URL service is indeed quite Su.pr (that's its name) but we wonder if it will lead to such an influx of publisher-submitted content that content submitted by users because it's cool will have more noise to compete with." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"Scurrying into the ant colony is newcomer Krumlr, a combo utility for URL shortening and sharing, with social bookmarking baked in. With Krumlr users can save and tweet links using two separate bookmarklets. After creating an account, users drag the blue and red ants to their browser toolbar to either just bookmark a page, or both bookmark and tweet the link at the same time." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

@Jannifer - I also wonder. There's only so many of them that you can have, before you reach a saturation point, and once people start consolidating on a few/one, there's a risk that the others will go under, and leave a load of dead link debris behind. I like tr.im's statistics and "URLs I've shortened" retention feature, although I'm not religious about URL shorteners, for what it's worth. - Tyson Key

"The spreadsheet component of Google Docs provides some useful functions for importing web data into your online documents. For instance, you can use the importFeeds function to manipulate RSS in Google Docs while the importHTML function helps you fetch information from a live web page into Google Docs." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"Well, that was fast. No more than a day or two after Twitter switched over to bit.ly as its default link shortener (from TinyURL), bit.ly is now the most popular URL shortening service. According to statistics published by Tweetmeme, bit.ly now accounts for 46 percent of all the short URLs on Twitter over the past 24 hours, while TinyURL’s share is down to 43 percent. Just over a month ago, TinyURL had an overwhelming 75 percent share to TinyURL’s 13 percent share. According to Tweetmeme, bit.ly overtook TinyURL sometime last night." - Kol Tregaskes

Big fan of bit.ly, great service. And now it's improved it's bookmarklet: http://ff.im/2GAH4 - Kol Tregaskes

"We just updated the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet with some great new features. ( Get it at http://bit.ly/pages/tools ) Our favorite new feature is the ability to Tweet directly from the bit.ly sidebar without leaving the page you are reading. Just sign in to bit.ly, link up your Twitter account, click the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet on any blog post, news article, or other page, and the bit.ly sidebar will open with a text field where you can enter some text and a link to the page you’re viewing and send it off to your friends on Twitter." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

This will explain why it's been screwing up all day. :-) Take a look at this, it's a very good way to checking if an article is already on FF, see pic above for an example. Before it was just text now it's link to the FF entry. - Kol Tregaskes

Just keeps on getting better - Bwana ☠

"A little startup called Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as the default link shortening service on Twitter. This isn't just about shortening links, though. "The truth about Bit.ly," enterprise software analyst James Governor said today, "is that it's not a URL shortener, it's a trend management and metrics platform."" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

check out http://go2.me ----- article of http://kl.am/sel on url shortener at http://kl.am/short - Mashable at http://go2.me/6r - pb:

"A group for the URL shortener service, bit.ly." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Why not? - Kol Tregaskes

good to see some cross-posting ... announces new interesting groups to ya ... and groups can be if nothing than personal or social web bookmarks aggregators - pb:

"A group for URL shorteners such as bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, Tweetburner and Cli.gs" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet