URL, E-Mail and Text Shortening with kissa.be

Comments · September 8, 2008 at 4:54 am · Online Tools

If you have been looking for an online service that does a little ‘bit of everything when it comes to shortening your content, Kissa.be might be the solution. 

They not only offer URL shortening services (taking your long URL and creating a shorter one that is easier to share).  They also offer e-mail address shortening and text shortening too.

Here are a few use suggestions for Kissa.be via their web site.

• Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
• Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
• Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
• If you dislike a web site and have to mention it (e.g. when complaining about it), link via kissa.be so that your link does not help the site’s search engine positioning
• Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter
• Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam (enter an address like mailto:user.name@example.com)

Kissa.be is different in another way too.  They have opened themselves up, and put up their code on Google’s Code web site.  Kissa.be’s code has been released under the GNU General Public License v2.

 

Share a Cup of Text with TinyPaste

Comments (1) · June 30, 2008 at 5:08 am · Online Tools

Have a big block of text you need to send to a friend?  What about a list of URLs or another miscellaneous reason to copy and paste something over from any sort of document to a friend?  TinyPaste is here to help.

To use, all you need to do is copy any text you have into the pastebin and then hit the submit button.  In return, you’ll be given a URL to get easy access to that text.  Think of it as TinyURL for just about anything text-based.  As if that wasn’t enough to love - they also have a Firefox extension too.