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Thursday Tech Tip: Meaningful URLs better than tinyurls

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Tinyurls are fab for condensing overly elaborate URLs and sending them about, but they're not terribly meaningful. Tinyurl.com/4rgo63o doesn't mean much to me, anyway. MeaningfulURL.com allows a similar condensing process, but allows you to swap the tinyurl portion for something more meaningful, like thanks.to or invite.you.to. You can the then pick the latter portion. For instance, I condensced the URL for the new iPhone story into meaningfulurl.jpg. Unfortunately, the addresses expire after three days, but damn, during you can do lots during those three days...

Try it here [via LifeHacker]

Sounded good at first, but then I noticed that they expire in 3 days. So I'll stick with tinyurl, thanks.

And they restrict the type of content you can post. No thanks.

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