W-i-d-e-U-R-L: Because sometimes tiny just isn't good enough

Posted Apr 16th 2008 12:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

There are plenty of services out there that will take a long URL and make it shorter so that you can fit it in an email, IM or Twitter message. But sometimes you don't want your URL to be shorter and easier to read or remember. Sometimes you want it to be as long as humanly possible. Don't ask us when you would want that, just take our word for it. Fortunately, there's a service that can help.

W-i-d-e-U-R-L will take your relatively short and easy to remember URL and lengthen it by essentially spelling it out. For example, www.downloadsquad.com becomes that behemoth you see above. But wait, there's more! Is that super-long URL a bit too much to remember? No problem, W-i-d-e-U-R-L features TinyURL integration, which lets you quickly condense any freshly created URL, thus closing an entirely pointless circle.

[via Robert Scoble]

Tags: tinyurl, wideurl

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-16-2008 @ 2:30PM

stan said...

Someone has a sense of humor and too much time on there hands.

4-16-2008 @ 8:00PM

Norman said...

"Don't ask us when you would want that, just take our word for it."

No, you have to prove such statement. :)

4-16-2008 @ 8:48PM

jccalhoun said...

I prefer http://hugeurl.com/ for all my url embiggening.

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