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Small is beautiful

June 24th, 2005

I came across this a while ago and forgot it. TinyURL.com is a free redirection service which takes your big URLs, like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-7066182-4716634?node=3435361

and turns them into small ones which do the same thing:

http://tinyurl.com/dxrqz

Much less messy in your email messages. Much easier to dictate over the phone.

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