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Battle of the URL Shorteners

Call it the Cool Little Tools Showdown. Join us as DLB unscientifically compares three different sites that promise to make your web address less.

Written by Nick Senske on October 7, 2008

In our ongoing efforts to understand and master Twitter, we’ve come across a common problem: with a message limit of only 140 characters, how does one deal with long URL’s that can sap precious info-space?

There are more than a few options out there, so in the interest of sharing our experience, we’ve picked a representative (though admittedly not comprehensive—there are tons of them) sample of URL shortening services and broken them down in terms of branding, ease of use, and additional features.

Cool Little Tools, Vol. 1

In my travels online, I’ve come across some helpful tools and resources that have made my job as a designer, academic, and human being just a little bit easier. In the interest of aggregation, I thought I'd share some of them here on BlogLESS.

Written by Nick Senske on October 2, 2008

Caveats

Now, we’ve all got way too many tools in our lives—software, email, and now things like Twitter and delicious, so this may seem like a whole lot more from a couple of guys who proclaim the virtue of less. I’ll try to counter that by saying these are “little” tools: simple, one-shot smart bombs for solving specific problems -- nothing new to learn, no lifelong commitments to maintenance. (Alton Brown would probably shoot me for pitching unitaskers, but, whatever. Software is different.)

Posts tagged Cool Little Tools.

Battle of the URL Shorteners

Call it the Cool Little Tools Showdown. Join us as DLB unscientifically compares three different sites that promise to make your web address less.

Cool Little Tools, Vol. 1

In my travels online, I’ve come across some helpful tools and resources that have made my job as a designer, academic, and human being just a little bit easier. In the interest of aggregation, I thought I'd share some of them here on BlogLESS.

Caveats