All you need to do to get started is point your browser towards thin.gs and then type in the link you wish to shorten.  Next, you hit the "Short it" button and then copy your link.  They also have a pretty basic, but still useful API to play with too.  To use it, just point your browser to:

http://thin.gs/api.php?url=yourdomain.com

Where "yourdomain.com" is the web address you want to shorten.  You can also drag and drop this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar to use thin.gs on any website to shorten any link.

Want to try it out for yourself? Head on over to thin.gs.

Once you plug a link in, you get something that looks like this:

http://href.in/r759yj

Just copy, paste and share with who you need to share with.  Another neat thing they do is it look like they share all the links that get shortened on a Twitter account.  For the voyeuristic people out there, that feature is just for you.  No descriptions, just random link sharing.

The last thing I like about them is their API, they allow anybody to use.  This could come in handy with merging the URL shortening with another service.  In all, href.in seems to be doing everything right.  It is a simple and quick way to shorten those links you share back and forth everyday.

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