Kly.so – Earn Money With Short URLs
A URL shortening service that lets you earn money for every link that you share? It looks like a good idea on paper, doesn’t it? Yet, that doesn’t mean such a concept would translate into the kind of service people would actively use. We have already seen our share of web tools for having URLs shortened and spread in a way that meant every click would let us earn some cash. That’s what Byb.me and Yvy.me were all...
iSpoot.com – Share Shortened Links & Be Paid
The large number of URL shorteners that offer you money in exchange for using them, and the lack of a leading service in such an area simply highlights how the concept lacks any real depth. And a site like Spoot is not really going to make a difference. iSpoot lets you shorten links and have them shared on the spot. And it pays you for doing so – you will be paid $ 5 for every 1000 people that have clicked on any link that you...
Vid.vu – Share Shortened Video URLs
Vid.vu is a URL shortener that has the distinct feature of being usable only for video pages. It is presented by Sorenson Media, and it works in conjunction with the Sorenson Squeeze Server, an encoding tool that guarantees the quality of what is being shortened through the service. And the resulting links are not only really short (often less than 14 characters), they also make for quite a high degree of customization. So, it is...
URLXRay.com – Minimizing The Risks Of Shortened URLs
Shortened URLs are a necessary evil, as they open up a whole range of risks for your computer and your privacy. Fortunately, there are sites such as URL X-Ray available that let you have a better understanding of where it is exactly that clicking on this or that short URL will take you to. That is the exact definition of what this new website does. It shows you where any Bit.ly or Tinyurl link is taking you by displaying the long URLs...
Crum.bs – Another Alternative To URL Shortening
The Internet without URL shorteners would be a bit like the Tower Of London without the crows. There is such an interdependence at play that each concept has become a constituent part of the other. Crumbs is a new URL shortening service that lets you do what services like it always let people do: take a “long” (IE, normal) URL and have it trimmed so that you can share it with whomever you fancy when tweeting, or in any other context...