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X.vu - Yet Another URL Shortener

Just a couple of days ago I was expressing how pleased I was because a couple of novel URL shorteners have emerged recently, and all of a sudden a new one which is not that distinctive appears. It goes by the name of X.vu, and in addition to letting you create a short link it empowers you to add a t...  read more

Safe.mn - Shortening URLs The Easy & Safe Way

URL shortening has an inherent number of drawbacks that on balance can make the whole experience turn into a sour one. Namely, it is very easy to end up somewhere you did not intend to go in the first place, not to mention infecting your computer in the process. Safety and transparency are the main ...  read more

3.ly - Shorten Links To Just Three Characters

URL shortening is certainly a fertile field. We can chalk it down to the popularity of social services as a whole, and the fact that services like Twitter snowball by the hour just give them added presence on the web.

This one is a young contender, and (as it is necessary for a new one to h...  read more

Rnk.me - A New URL Shortener

Should you want to start collecting something which has to do with the Internet, you might as well start collecting sites that shorten URLs. There are so many that it is impossible to keep track of them, and (to me) that fact only highlights the ever-increasing popularity of Twitter, and the level o...  read more

MobileTinyURL.com - Type Less In Your Mobile

This is the first URL shortener service that is in charge to optimize for mobile devices with numerical keypad. As you already know, a URL can be the address for a website, as well as a game, or any other application. In addition to this, you will be able to find videos or any other kind of con...  read more

Twitlik.com - URL Redirection Service

To quote Elvis Costello, the Internet has become “mighty crowded”, and many addresses have become just too long as a result. Every now and then we feel like sharing some of these. This is not a problem if we are e-mailing them, but when it comes to contexts where there is a limit of characters i...  read more

MiniLink.me - Another URL Shortener

If sharing links through Twitter or any other social channel is what keeps you preoccupied, you must not have been looking very hard. In fact you must not have been looking at all. There is such an unbelievable number of applications and tools that serve these purposes that if you want to find one w...  read more

Url.ie - Shorten Those Long URLs

Anyone who has ever sent an email or written a blog post with a long URL included knows that these URLs can sometimes break and that they take up a lot of valuable space for nothing. Url.ie offers to truncate URLs for you in seconds. Just go to url.ie, and either paste or type the URL that you’d ...  read more

Shortio.com - Make Short URLs

Shortio’s aim is to provide a stable and reliable service to people needing to make their long urls short. With Shortio.com you can turn long url addresses into small ones. Why would you need a Shortio url? If you’re an affiliate, the possibilities are endless. You can hide your affiliate ID, yo...  read more

Tweetl.com - Short and Sweet URLs for Twitter

Twitter’s oodles of fun, but, it’s got some kinks which, to the web intrepid and tech geeks, are beyond bothersome. One of these grievances happens to pertain to those super long, unmanageable URLs dished out by Twitter for posting your tweets; so much for light comm. Some users simply take a ...  read more