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Nobel Prize Winning Link Shortener?

Looking for a new way to shrink links, tweet links, and then analyze your links, to see how well (or not so well) they have been clicked? Then you might want to check into retwt.me. This online link shrinker is very simple, and stays to the point of wanting to help you shrink links and then check out if anybody has clicked through them.

Now before you tell me that bit.ly or even ping.fm do this too, let me bring up the point that retwt.me is also brought to you by the guys who developed TweetMeme – the sort of digg-like re-tweeting popular link site. So, give retwt.me a shot, not as a replacement of the tools you already use, but maybe more as an alternative if your current link shrinking tools aren’t doing it for you.

Does it re-invent the wheel? No. Should it win the Nobel Prize for link shortening? Maybe not. It does provide you with one more way to make your long URLs tiny, so what more do you want from a free online link shrinking service?

To start shrinking and sharing your own links, go visit retwt.me.

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News Meets Photo Uploads and Link Shortening

Jun/18 in Online Apps

A mashup of link sharing plus news aggregation, Virl is a place to shorten your URLs, upload photos, and spread the news.

What would you like to do?

The first thing you see when you check out the site is this blue monster guy asking you what you would like to do? You can tell it you want to upload a photo or shorten a URL. Pretty simple right?

Get the popular news on Virl

Well that is only half the web site. The other half gives you the popular posts from a number of different resources, like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Buzz and more.

A virtual mix of both link sharing and shortening – this web site has a lot of potential, however my first suggestion would be to shrink down their monster guy on the top of the page. Why? There is no way I would want to scroll that far down every time I check out the page to see some of the popular headlines out there from their various news sources listed on the site. Go see how viral Virl is for you.

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Alternative to Tiny URLs – Enlarge Your Links!

Apr/17 in Online Apps

Everybody these days is promising to make your URLs you share shorter, but not many are making them longer! Longr.us is a simple web site that will make your web site addresses just a little longer. For example it took:

http://www.mitchelaneous.com/free-desktop-icons/

and turned it into:

http://longr.us/mitchelaneous.com/free-desktop-icons

See, that has to be at least 10% longer! All kidding aside, there is a purpose to this. As you can see from the example above, it doesn’t give you a random mix of numbers and letters. Instead if stays focused on explaining where the link came from and what it is about. They also promise the long URLs are guaranteed to fit in 140 characters (for you Twitter users). They even have easy access through a bookmarklet too.

Before you laugh it off as a goofy idea, give it a shot. You might find longer is better (when it comes to sharing your links!).

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I Need to Read This

Apr/08 in Online Apps

I got to save that link for later!

I have been using Instapaper for some time now, as my “bookmark that to read it later” bookmarking service. It is simple, and easy to use. However there is a new service that does the same on the block, and its name is I Need to Read This.

Once you sign up, you are told to drag and drop the saving bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. After that, all you have to do is click it to save a page to read later. Rather than mess up your own bookmarks, by saving a lot of random stuff – I Need to Read This gives you the chance to save that temporary list of links to the Web, where it can be accessed from anywhere.

So if you are looking for a way to save a link for later, give I Need to Read This a shot.

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Another All in One Bookmarking Site

Jan/07 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

There are a few all in one bookmarking sites for users and web developers out there, and I am ready to toss in a new one for you to check out. OnlyWire is here to give you one more way to share your content easily with a browser plugin, or a web site badge.

Using what they promise to be an optimized platform for enhanced performance and reliability, OnlyWire looks like it has all the bases covered. You can submit your web site instantly to places such as: ask, bibsonomy, blinklist, bluedot, bookmarksync, connotea, delicious, diigo, facebook, furl, googlebookmarks, jumptags, linkatopia, multiply, mywebyahoo, newsvine, simpy, spurl, technorati, and twitter.

You can also use the limited service for free, or pay for more features:

“Pay” version — use fully-supported OnlyWire “ad free” by paying $2.99 per month or prepaying for 1 year ($24.99) and saving 30%. Pay customers are encouraged to embed
the Bookmark & Share Button on your website to drive traffic and backlinks. You will also have the option to turn off OnlyWire advertisements.
“Promote” version — use fully-supported OnlyWire for FREE by adding the Bookmark & Share Button to your website or blog. You still enjoy the same functionality as the “Pay” version of OnlyWire, but promote the continued operation of the site through advertising.

Another interesting service they provide in an API to work with, to help you get yourself submitted to a number of different places automatically.

All in all, it is another alternative out there to some of the other “there can be only one” bookmark or link sharing sites out there. If you are looking to auto-submit your bookmarks, give OnlyWire a shot.

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Best of October 2008

Nov/01 in Odds & Ends

Looking back, I had a very interesting mix of the most popular posts on Mitchelaneous for October. I would even say, there was a little something for everybody.

Hope you enjoyed, and if there is something you’d like to see more of or less of coming into November, please let me know.

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15 Favorite CSS and Design Resources

Sep/23 in Web Development Tutorials

Want to know a little more about the world of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and design? Here are some great places to get started.

Know of anymore great links? Leave a comment on this post, and share with the rest of the group. Really looking forward to seeing which ones you like the best.

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