Have you ever wanted to send someone a link to a blog post or an Amazon book only to find that the URL was over 100 characters long? If you paste it in an email it is likely that the ‘link’ will break and make the recipient think that the ‘link’ is broken. What if a program could shorten it, allow you to give it del.icio.us tags, and provide you with statistics via RSS all at the same time? Basically URL redirection for the Web 2.0.
The Weblogs Work elves have created a simple tool to do just that called elfURL. Check out their work (it is still in beta).
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July 20th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
elfURL is the elfin Web 2.0 way to shorten giant URLs.
Last Monday I posted an entry with an idea for a new little Web 2.0 application to replace Tinyurl. Basically I suggested that it would be helpful to have a tool to make long URLs shorter, while at the same time providing a way to apply delicious tag…
July 21st, 2005 at 9:56 am
Profile - ElfURL
Service: ElfURL
Created: July 20, 2005
What is it?
ElfURL went from idea to launch in 4 days.
I was reading Alexander Muse’s blog this morning and saw his post on ElfURL:
“Last Monday I posted an entry with an idea for a new little …