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As you already know, Google and Facebook launched their own URL shortening service, which are goo.gl or fb.me respectively. Both companies launch their URL shortening services after watching the popularity of Bit.ly on Twitter.

Now Youtube comes into the scene by launching Youtu.be. Main focus is to create trimmed URL of Youtube Videos.
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There are dozens and dozens of URL shortening services. Everybody came across plenty of short URLs while surfing. Many times clicking on short URL can take you to the unwanted website or can cause trouble to your computer as there are plenty of phishing and spamming sites hiding behind the short URLs.
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URL shortening services was introduced to use in emails when there was only 80 columns allowed. In recent days internet users are dealing with the twitter phenomena, the 140 character micro blogging platform.

Micro bloggers are using many URL shortening services. TinyUrl , bit.ly and tr.im are among the most famous one. Recently tr.im users heard a bad news of service shut down and its entire links could be dead by January 1st, 2010.

The major reason for shutting down the tr.im is that they are not following any business model to keep this service alive. Same is the case with other URL shortening services. Read the rest of this entry »

Br.st is a new link shortening service owned by the popular hosting company Brinkster. After the popularity of micro blogging phenomena, there are several link shortening services in town. This new service has some extra cool features which no other service is offering.

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If you are regular visitor of internet forums and blogs and post your email address on forum posts or blog comments. This will make your email address vulnerable to the phishing and spamming attacks. The email address written on any webpage can be easily readable by phishing and spamming bots.

Scr.im is an online service which converts your email address into a short web address. In this way genuine people who want to mail you, will go to that webpage, after simple human verification test permission will be granted to view the email address.
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There is plenty of URL shortening services on the web. Some are for general use and some are for specific use. If you are sending the tweets on twitter your probably have tried one.

Xm.my is URL shortening service, specific for shortening the URLs of Google Maps. These URLs can be shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious… etc.
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