URL Shortening (Was: [Wylug-discuss] Extreme Programming Club this Thursday at 7.00pm at the Victoria Hotel)

[Smylers]

John Hodrein writes:

> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, James Holden wrote:
> 
> > > http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=LS1+5RG&daddr=53
> > > .800721,-1.54963&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=17&mra=dme&sll=53.800135,-1.54978&sspn
> > > =0.004828,0.014269&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17
> > 
> > Argh!  You need to qurl it:
> > 
> > http://qurl.co.uk/v91t
> 
> Now I could switch from using tinyurl to using one you've knocked up,
> but I'd really have to ask why...

I like Metamark, which lets you pick the tag used at the end of the URL
rather than using arbitrary characters.  For example, the above URL can
be shortened to:

  http://xrl.us/VicToDrOkells

See: 

  http://metamark.net/

Smylers