So I finally tried out tinyurl which is just what the name implies! It's a free website http://tinyurl.com which helps you take your long URL and automatically replace it with a "tiny" one! I had heard about it but never tried it until now. I even was able to drag a "tinyurl" button onto my browser link toolbar so when I was at the webpage I wanted to convert all I had to do was click on the link and the tinyurl was created automatically. Then all I did was follow the instructions right there on the webpage and copy the new URL which in this case was a link to the presentation I mentioned previously that I created using spresent.com and can now be found using the new tinyurl at http://tinyurl.com/2ylvt6. So now, if you click on the http://tinyurl.com/2ylvt6 link, you'll go directly to the webpage that previously was represented by:
http://www.spresent.com/presenter/SimPView.swf?sDir=http://www.spresent.com/presenter/&p=/barry.bakin@lausd.net/Compare%20Shenandoah%20and%20Beijing%20draft
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Hi, Barry,
I lurk a lot on various lists and always appreciate your input. I got to this post following your experiment with Pageflakes -- that seems as if it might work well. But to the point here -- have you tried snipurl? If you register, you have the option of naming the shortened url to something memorable. See, for example, http://www.snipurl.com/terakki or http://www.snipurl.com/closely.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I'll try it out!
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