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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.

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I am still looking for a good way to upload multiple pictures from my iphone picture gallery to ipernity in one step. I remember that i have done that with shozu on my old nokia cellphone. but it seems that shozu on the iphone doesn't let you choose more than one picture. does it? plus, i couldnt find a way to add sharing options - i want them to be private first.

i tested pixelpipe as well, same results concerning the sharing options. here you can choose multiple images though. but be careful, if you add more than one destination, pixelpipe sends the pics to ALL these websites. cool for those who want that.

i'd wish shozu would let me add sharing options (or let me do it the picturesync-way with a "!private" tag) and choose multiple pics at once - put em in a queue and upload them. or pixelpipe should give its users a chance to upload to ONE site only and WITH sharing options.

i like that both have a pile of services you can upload to like ipernity, facebook, twitter, twitpic, picasa, box.net, brightkite (pp) and so on. depending on the pic it's good for me to upload them to different places than ipernity.

of course there's still the email-way that lets you add "share : private" , but you can only send one pic at a time and it takes long...

so, does anyone have a solution for this?

maybe a good idea to develop an ipernity iphone app and even make some money with it?!

shozu iPhone

pixelpipe iPhone