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As far as I can tell, TinyURL is not mobile savvy.
I get a ton of TinyURLs now via Twitter over SMS and click them most of the time. I am fortunate to have a mobile browser that can handle most things. But, what if TinyURL recognized a phone and sent the browser to a mobile-formatted page, maybe passed through Mowser?
Russ, if you read this: get on the line with the TinyURL guys and inject some mobile-savviness into them!
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I actually had a TinyURL like service on Mowser for a while, but no one was using it so I took it off to help focus the site. Tiny URLs are especially handy for sending links via SMS, so it's still a good idea... maybe I'll add it back in again, or better yet, use TinyURL's API to mashup something instead, as people seem to prefer/trust that service.
Thanks as always for the thoughts!
:-)
-Russ
Posted by:Russ | 16 November 2007 at 12:28
Tapp.it does all this and a bit more...
http://tapp.it
Posted by:Champ | 26 December 2007 at 20:40