Of course you know tinyurl.com. And Rex Hammock, faithful follower of goodly wired things, told us about urlzen.com. I’ve seen a twurl.nl in tweets now and then. Ping.fm has its own URL scruncher built-in.
And today, blogging guru Dave Winer introduced me to a company he’s part owner in called bit.ly.
I’ll have to keep comparing urlzen to bit.ly to TinyURL!, because each offers different things. One of my favorite TinyURL! features is that the tinyurl is copied into my memory as soon as I hit the bookmarklet. There’s no dragging, no clicking, no Apple-C, no nothing.
But the others offer all kinds of tracking goodies, and stuff I haven’t even learned yet.
I may not develop the technology, but I sure do like it.
(By the way: whatever happened to the idea that we were all going to start calling them URIs instead of URLs?)
