After staying in closed beta for a month, StumbleUpon’s very own URL shortener, Su.pr is now out of its Beta phase. The toolbar lets you shorten URL and share your favorite link across social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon itself. The site provides tools like scheduling that lets you decide when a message is sent to the selected networks. I need not say more on this save that it adds to the already swarm of URL shortening services out there, what will be more interesting is how it helps generate more traffic with its tools.
Tag Archive: url_shorteners
And the race of the URL shorteners continues, each trying to beat the other by differing in names and a few additional features like password protection, etc. I just came across another one (don’t blame me, it’s the fault of the real time FriendFeed), 3.ly. The new URL shortener takes the cake away as being the shortest URL creator with a mere 14 characters, beating is.gd’s 17. Now this might sound pretty useless to talk about and many would jump out shouting if there isn’t anything better to talk about. I personally think it’s useful, all those useful URL shorteners, especially in the age of micro-messaging services (I didn’t say Twitter) where you would love to save as many of those 140 characters by shrinking the long URLs, there is quite a need for these services. 14 characters, I can bet there is some geek already at work to shrink it further by a couple of more. Anyone?
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With the URL shortening category keeps swarming with a new one every now and then, a few of those new comers try to be a bit different and Krumlr is one of them. The startup makes a stew of the countless services and mixes it up with its URL shortener. This means you can share, bookmark as well as shorten the URL of a particular page you like. Not just that it offers Twitter like features too and lets you follow friends, update your status, etc. Each time you Krum a site, a new window opens in which the title and the short URL are auto populated. You can add tags, etc to categorize your Krum in a better way. What ever page you krum is saved to your profile and shared with other users, plus you can post the same on Twitter. Using it isn’t difficult in any way, simply drag and drop the bookmarks to your browser. I used the service and it isn’t bad at all, in fact much more useful than the traditional URL shorteners you are currently using.
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