2009
09.05

A TinyURL is a way to obfus­cate — and sim­plify a long URL into some­thing much sim­pler. Recently, I’ve seen more and more friends post them on sites such as Face­book. I think that these types of links and ser­vice are here to stay. In fact, one rea­son why I am writ­ing about this is because I noticed a Word­press Plu­gin that offers to turn every one of your links into a TinyURL — which while in con­cept I think is nice — but in prac­tice is a ter­ri­ble idea.