Tiny Alternative
| Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | --jr |
Oh that's right, yesterday was my day. D'OH!
Anyway, here's a silly hack that's kinda clever. Let's say you've got a really long url that's going to wrap horribly, say, like a url to some multi-point driving directions. You could use a service like TinyUrl, but one potential problem is that some folks aren't big fans of not knowing where they're going. (They've been subject to one too many unexpected anatomy lessons)
Well, one option is that you can save that link to del.icio.us with a unique tag and suddenly
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&gid2=31215286&q2=2821+Mission+
College+Blvd%2C+SANTA+CLARA%2C+CA&q1=701+First+Ave%2C+
SUNNYVALE%2C+CA%2C+94089&trf=0&lon=-122.001886
&lat=37.403574&mag=5
becomes
http://del.icio.us/jrconlin/snv2mc1
with a nice landing comment so that visitors can see where they're going to.