lifehacker.com - 4/1/2009
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We've talked a lot about making URLs shorter, from Hive Five topics to fancy Unicode tricks. What about the times you want to make your URL bigger?
Sure it's convenient to shorten a URL so your...
Why URL shorteners suck —
Boing Boing
Delicious founder Joshua Schachter says that URL shorteners like TinyURL are a bad idea, because they make the web more fragile, dependent on the shortener services as central points of failure. They also assist spammers, undermine googlejuice, and expose users to security vulnerabilities. I ...