Top 5 URL Shorteners and How They Help You
Long URLs are simply hard to pass along. The links tend to sometimes
break in email, are harder to verbalize in a conversation, and they are
difficult, or in some cases near impossible to remember.
For example, let’s say you want to pass along this piece of news to your friends about how the ‘Iphone will test loyalty of cellular customers’- Which you can visit with this long URL…
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/24/loyalty/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
…which I will need to shorten to something more digestible.
Now, there are a plethora of URL shortening services out there – the
majority of them free, but most of them not bringing anything unique to
the table. Here are some notable exceptions with useful value-added
features in place:

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