Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Open Source
Open source MURLS submits links to multiple shorteners
by Lee Mathews Sep 16th 2009 at 4:30PM
The tiny, portable application is plugged in to 28 different services including popular ones like bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd, and tinyurl. Each shortener is selectable in the MURLS options screen, so you can create as few or as many truncated links as you please.
Just double-click any URL in the list view and it's copied to your clipboard for easy pasting into Twitter updates or anywhere else you need to send abbreviated links. By default, the app sorts created links by length - shortest links first.
MURLS can definitely be a useful little app for link sharer -- I just hope this doesn't lead to Twitter updates with a dozen shortened links crammed into the 140.
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Spedione said 4:41PM on 9-16-2009
You misspelled "sharer". You typed "sharesr".
Just a little FYI
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Grant Robertson said 8:23PM on 9-16-2009
Does shortening something 28 times make it any better than once? I mean, it's not like you're going to paste all 28 urls into that historic Twitter post, are you?
Ok, so shortened links threaten the long term inter-linking nature of things on the web. But, isn't it all pretty ephemeral anyway? It's not like I'm using short links in a medical journal or, a thesis.
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Lee Mathews said 8:36PM on 9-16-2009
But...Well, 28 half decent cookies is still a lot of cookies.
I'm not convinced of the relevance, I just wish I had some good cookies.
Gregory Beauregard said 7:15AM on 9-18-2009
It isn't meant to shorten 28 URLs every time for every person. They are simply all enabled by default to show off functionality, expose some good shorteners that you may not have known about previously, and to make a comparison of the current length of popular URL shorteners to other ones currently available. I usually only leave 2-3 of my favorite shorteners enabled in case one is down or if another domain happens to float my boat at that time.
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