June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Tweak the Look and Feel of Web Maps #37
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at http://xrl.us/ora2dc, which is only slightly longer than the other one, but
arguably a bit easier to remember. Alternatively, notlong.com offers the same
feature, but as part of the domain name, so that the first link can also be
found at http://ora.notlong.com. Look, Ma, no broken links in your email!
URL-shortening services have other tricks up their sleeves, too. For exam-
ple, most of them offer password protection if privacy is a concern. Almost
all of them also have a companion bookmarklet, which is a little wodge of
JavaScript that you can save to your browser’s bookmark list or toolbar. If
you’ve saved a bookmarklet for your favorite shortening service, you can
simply click it any time you want a shortened URL for the web page you’re
currently looking at. One click! They can’t make it any easier.
The various URL-shortening services offer other elaborations on this basic
idea, and pretty much all of them promise to keep your link around for any-
where from five years from the last time it was clicked to more or less for-
ever. We prefer Metamark and MakeAShorterLink, because they were built
by various friends of ours, but you can find a comprehensive list to choose
from online at http://notlong.com/links/.
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