Tiny URLs

Here's another site that does the same thing: http://bit.ly

You have a wealth of information to share!  Thank you!

I have seen "tinyurl" as part of a web address many, many times but never knew until know where it came from.  This would have saved me a few headaches just last week when I had to put out a very long url to a group of people.  Next time I'll use tinyurl.

This is the second time today that I'm using you as a resource.  First your wiki, now your hint.  Thank you Patricia.

That's so wonderful to hear!

I've seen a lot of people use the bit.ly site on FaceBook and Twitter. Tiny URL has been around for a long time. It's very handy!

Patricia

PS: did you know you can see all the posts one person has written by clicking on his/her name? The forum profile lists all the posts that person has made. I have found it to be the easiest way to back track on the threads I'm involved in.

Patricia,
i have had to learn about shorten urls since I started using Twitter. Now when I'm sending a link to someone in an email I will shorten it. Also using this is great if someone has to type in a url instead of being able to cut and paste it.

Thanks for the great information - the shorter url will help us all!

I have found a cool, new site!  It's called gl.am and it converts url's to a shorter, gl.am version.  It also bookmarks pages and stores them as thumbnails.  Eventually, I expect this new site will replace Delicious. 

Here's another site that does the same thing: [url]

-patriciadelich

I use bit.ly for the information it tracks for you - such as the number of clicks to your link, and the origin of the clicks (and more).