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		spydez on March 12, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight Agreed. I avoid clicking on tinyurl.com links for this very reason. And are long urls a big deal? I found a titanium spork the other day on Amazon, and my friends were fine with the giant honkin' link I IMed. On blogs, forums and the like, you can always hide the giant url behind some hyperlink text. The only good use of shortened URLs I've seen is in IRC channel topics.

thorax on March 12, 2008 [–]

Tiny URLs got a resurgence in a world of SMS and Twitter.

(Full disclosure: I have a simple URL shrinking service myself, http://ri.ms -- not pretty, but functional)

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