[scrm-wg] TinyURL

[Franco Travostino]

><http://tinyurl.com/7r5tg>http://tinyurl.com/7r5tg
>http://tinyurl.com/95lql
><http://tinyurl.com/dypet>http://tinyurl.com/dypet

Sounds as we've come back full circle to hardly-mnemonic telephone numbers :-)
This wasn't Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a human-readable WWW.

It's a pity that users still have to suffer those wrap-around text 
issues (poor standard or poor implementation?)
With that problem resolved, even the tiny PDAs nowadays afford 
cut&paste commands and shortcuts to deal with long URLs.

Apologies for the off-charter posting.

-franco

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At 09:08 AM 8/12/2005, Hiro Kishimoto wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>At the last SCRM-WG call on Aug. 8, I took an action item to
>explain TinyURL.
>
>TinyURL is a free service which creates short URL from long URL.
>
><http://tinyurl.com/>http://tinyurl.com/
>
>When you upload your file to GridForge, GridFroge gives you a
>unique but rather long and easy to break in multiple lines URL like;
>
><https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/scrm/document/spec-summry-template/en/2>https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/scrm/document/spec-summry-template/en/2 
>
>
>In order to avoid posting un-clickable URL, Visit tinyurl.com and put
>your long URL into "Enter a long URL to make tiny:" field of their page
>and hit the "Make TinyURL!" button. Then TinyURL gives you a short and
>handy URL like the following.
>
><http://tinyurl.com/dypet>http://tinyurl.com/dypet
>
>This URL works just like your long URL and never expires.
>
>p.s.
>Jay and Mark will post meeting minutes of the Aug. 8th call shortly.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Hiro Kishimoto
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