bit.ly – Fabulous Professional URL Shortener

By Altaf Sayani on July 9th, 2008 in Web 2.0 | No Comments

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TinyURL is perhaps the most favored URL shortener of users. However, the newly launched short URL maker service bit.ly would definitely give it a tough time now.

bit.ly is a URL shortener service with lots of new features which no other URL shortener have provided thus far.

Here are some of its innovative features
1. History – bit.ly saves last 15 shortened URL created by you and display them on homepage. These URL saved using Cookies.
2. Click/ Referrer Tracking – bit.ly has a feature which track all the no. of clicks made on the shortened URL along with the details of the referrer. (example)
3. Thumbnail – bit.ly automatically generates thumbnail of shortened URL’s.
4. Mirror the URL – This is the best feature which I like, bit.ly automatically generates mirror of the original webpage similarly like Google Cache. So, if the target page gets deleted or offline, you can still visit that from the alternate mirror URL. (example)
5. RSS Feed – You can also get all the data about a shortened link using simple XML file.

So, go ahead and give bit.ly a try. And share your views about this newly launched service.

Source: [labnol]