I'm not positive about this, but it seems like the last 5 years or so have seen a huge increase in the number of cool web applications that are available on the internet. I have been surfing the web since 1992, and I've seen a lot of websites. There are just too many to fathom. Most of the ones you come across, you probably don't use very often. Others you probably use every day. One website that I use every day is Yahoo! - for email and searching the web.
Another website, which I started using a month or so ago, is TinyURL. Once or twice a week, I find myself emailing a link or URL to friends. (By the way, URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator.) As you probably know, this can be a dicey operation, especially for long URLs, because they sometimes get broken when your email software (or the recipients' email software) reformats the URL. Well, along comes TinyURL and solves the problem! They have written a sweet, simple-to-use web application, which takes the ridiculously long URL you want to send to your peeps and shrinks it into a smaller URL. This smaller URL will lead to the exact same page, and it does not break when you send it. You can try it out below using a widget that TinyURL provide.
Paste your behemoth URL into the box, click the Make TinyURL! button, and replace the behemoth with the tiny URL that appears on the resulting page.
Take this crazy-long URL from the Weather Channel, which leads to a weather forecast for Los Angeles, CA (161 characters long):
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USCA0638?lswe=Los%20Angeles,%20CA&lwsa=Weather36HourBusinessTravelerCommand&from=searchbox_typeahead
TinyURL turned it into this compact version (only 26 characters long):
In this study conducted by Royal Pingdom, several URL shortening services, including TinyURL, were tested and ranked according to speed and reliability: URL shortener speed and reliability shootout
yeahh i know about tinyurl few month ago, but im curios, will our tinyurl broken someday? if broken that gonna be mess
Posted by: Lily Iris | November 30, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Good point! Heres what the 1st paragraph of the TinyURL home page has to say: the URL will not break in email postings and never expires
Posted by: OJ Fizz | November 30, 2009 at 04:42 PM