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Warning About URL Shortening

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Shortening URLs like http://bit.ly/warningwarning are a bad idea, filling a real need, that seems like it’s not going to just go away. URLs like http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/03/18/warning-about-url-shortening are descriptive, help service like Google but they are way too hard to remember and take a long time to type into a web browser. Services like http://tinyurl.com , http://snipurl.com,… Continue Reading Warning About URL Shortening

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