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Smaller URLs made easy

I just found out about wapurl, a service that allows to take a long URL and convert it into a very short one using their API. WapURL is trying to target the mobile world, making a good point about sending long URL's through SMS.

Their service is nothing new, I know; TinyURL has been doing this for the longest time... TinyURL provides a way to integrate with IE, but since I'm a Firefox user it's no good :)

WapURL provides a Firefox extension that allows to simply right click in any page and select their API from the context menu ... and voila, a tiny url is provided on the fly. I am not really sure how much will I use this, but it is handy for sending mapped addresses, or anything with an obnoxiously long query string.

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Hi Rob,

Many thanks for the post. WapURL is a just a little project really. I have been really annoyed when sending URLs in SMS, say to WAP sites i.e. http://wap.bbc.co.uk/mobile/web/how2get.shtml?movi.... Already that's a large amount of my message gone. Hope it helps people out. I am to get the URL shorter soon as well but the domain name is £200...
# Posted By Nick Tong | 4/28/06 10:42 AM
What about these FF extensions for TinyURL?
https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=TinyURL&am...
# Posted By Bryan Ashcraft | 4/28/06 10:47 AM
Bryan,

You're right ... I just installed the tinyurl extension and it works fine too ... Thanks for the info.
# Posted By Rob Gonda | 4/28/06 10:54 AM
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