bit.ly – The incredible professional’s URL-Shortener

TinyURL is a popular way to shorten long URL’s into small one and can be shared on email, IM, microblogging like twitter and other contexts. Bit.ly, a new URL shortening service has more features than tinyURL. Maintains shoort history, Click and Referrer tracking, create thumbnail image, create RSS feed, et cetera.

1. It uses cookie to remember the last 15 shortened URLs you’ve created. They’re displayed on the home page next time you go back. Example for aboutonlinetips.com
2. Every time someone clicks on a short URL , 1 is added to the count of clicks for that page and for the referring page. Thus, Bit.ly also tracks clickthrough numbers and referrers so you can see what kind of traffic your shortcut got and from where.
3. There’s a simple API for creating short URLs from your web apps.
4.  It automatically create three thumbnail images for each page you link through bit.ly, small, medium and large size. You can use these in presenting choices to your users.
5. It automatically mirror each page, which can be used as a backup. Mirror image for aboutonlinetips.
6. You can easily access all the data about each page through a simple XML or JSON interface. Example.
7. All the standard features you expect from serious url-shorteners.

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