[oak perl] http://tinyurl.com/

David Alban extasia at extasia.org
Tue Oct 11 09:58:16 PDT 2005


Greetings,

George asked me to post this to opug.  It's a way to create a shorter,
forwarding URL from a longer, complicated one.  The web page that
allows you to do this is:  http://tinyurl.com/

For example, the location of the last opug meeting as a yahoo maps URL is:

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=530+Lake+Park+Ave&csz=oakland%2C+ca&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

At tinyurl.com, we can make a much shorter URL that will forward to
the longer one:

http://tinyurl.com/bwgs7

This is handy in that you can make these short "alias" URL's and then
reference them in email.

David
--
Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.


More information about the Oakland mailing list