Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Web services
LinkBunch turns multiple links into one
Pasting long multipart links can be an unsightly waste of space when you're talking on IM, text, or Twitter. There are dozens of web services that will cut a URL down to size, but when you're dealing with a group of links, it can still take multiple copies and pastes to share everything.
LinkBunch is a service that does exactly what it sounds like it should do: condenses multiple URLs into one short address. Just paste them all into one text box, hit a button, and your new, slimmer URL is ready to go. Your days of sending just one LOLcat picture at a time are over!
When someone clicks on your LinkBunch, they're directed to a page that shows all the links you included. This would be handy by itself, but the LinkBunch developers took the obvious next step and added an "open entire bunch" button, which pops each link into a new tab.
The major feature we found missing from LinkBunch was a bookmarklet to automatically bunch all open tabs, which would mean even less copying and pasting. We'd also like to see direct links to open an entire bunch, without first going to the page and clicking. Fortunately, it looks like the developers plan to release a LinkBunch API, which means these features might not be missing for long.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CeeTee said 3:54AM on 2-12-2008
Man, this sounds like a neat lil app. man, is that guy's name Aalaap ?? Sounds Jamaican... ya maan !!
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Aalaap said 7:29AM on 2-12-2008
Hey.. thanks for the review. Just thought I'd drop by to let you know that a Firefox extension to bunch all open tabs is now available for download: http://linkbunch.blogspot.com/2008/02/linkbunch-firefox-extension-preview.html
I hope it serves your purpose.
The other features you mentioned are interesting and I'm consdering integrating those as well. :)
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Joel said 11:41AM on 2-12-2008
wow! every bit as useful as http://tinyurl.com
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