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Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future

(Posted on  ReadWriteWeb  2 months ago)

URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture intere… (visit source article)
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