Make A Shorter URL -- And More!

First I found makeashorterlink.com , which was nice but had a huge domain name. Then I found http://tinyurl.com/ , which makes really tiny urls. Now I've learned about Shorl.com ( http://shorl.com/ ).

Shorl.com is ALSO an url-shortening service. But the difference is that they'll also provide a password which you can use later to access the click stats for a particular URL.

For example, say I make a short URL -- http://shorl.com/birufukypofy . Shorl.com will give me both the short URL and a password for the short URL (and a URL with the password included to access the short URL stats directly.) Stats include the date the URL was created and the number of hits it has generated.

Cool. I hope they consider charging for this. There are a couple of newspapers I'd love to see use something like this. They could track URL popularity and make their giant URLs actually copyable.

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