Link-shorteners

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Link-shorteners are very helpful for turning long URLs into a short link for sharing with twitter, IM or email i.e.

There are quite a few now you can choose from. Here's a collection and my personal rating.

• tinyurl.com the mother if them all, (+custom name, -no other features, popular)
• cli.gs (+custom name, +stats, +graphs, +conditional redirects )
• tr.im (+design, +very short URLS, +custom name, +tags, +stats, +graphs, +password?? )
• bit.ly (+custom name, +stats, +graphs)
• tweetburner.com (+design, +stats, -no custom name)
• moourl.com (+custom name, +design, -no other features)
• is.gd (+very short URLS, +custom name (with trick), -no other features)
• budurl.com (+custom name, +stats, -graph only with pro account)

The bold orange ones are the ones i prefer because of their features.

If you want to put multiple links into one check these:

• linkbun.ch (+1 field for all links, +easy) example
• krunchd.com/krunch (+design, +edit links, -all links public )
• shrink2one.com (+1 field for all links, +easy, +custom name, +password )
• zipmyurl.com (+password protection, +design, +tags, -no stats)

I prefer using a bookmarklet to create the short link, but some services do have Firefox Browser-Plugins or even an API.

Demo-Video "How to use the tr.im bookmarklet to shorten links":

If you don't need stats or any other features, all these work fine right now.
Keep in mind that some of these sites may not be available anymore sometime (soon maybe) cause they end up in the deadpool. But usually you use these shortened links for a quick sharing link anyway and do not need it anymore after a couple of days.