tinyPL
Planet Lotus Posted by Yancy Lent August 14th, 2008URL compression has landed on Planet Lotus. I don’t plan on making the URL’s public and they will be around as long as the site is online. Bottom line its a fun way to promote Lotus blogs.
tinyPL will turn a long URL into a smaller one, most of the time; at worst it will be branded.
An example would be: http://www.yancylent.com/2008/08/14/tinypl/ to http://planetlotus.org/t/3
My favorite is http://is.gd. It’s where a lot of the PL implementation ideas came from. I use it to ensure long URL’s don’t get cut in two in email messages.
To use it, simply go to the Planet Lotus front page and enter a url (http or https) into the search field.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: Hit count is not tracked on links that are added to tinyURL.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Great!! Will this also increase the amount of hits a blog gets as shown in the PL home page? I think I saw a blog about this 1-2 days ago.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
No. This is meant for none blog posts, given that blog posts have an already short url, example:
http://planetlotus.org/2f5468
http://planetlotus.org/t/3
Both go to the same place and are almost as long. The hit count is not tracked on links entered into tinyPL.