URL Shortening Bookmarklets

No one prefers to use long URLs when there are a lot of URL shortening services available. URL shortening services like tinyurl.com, bitly etc take up a long URL and give you a short URL which you can share easily. Though you can to these sites directly and do the conversion, there is another easy alternative.

Most of these sites provide you with a bookmarklet, with which the URL shrinking can be done easily. I've listed the bookmarklets of some popular URL shrinking services.

• TinyURL
• is.gd
• bit.ly
• Shrink-O-Matic
• SnipUrl/Snurl/Snipr
• durl.us
• Myurl
• u.nu
  

Drag the bookmarklet of to your bookmarks toolbar or use right-click menu to save it as a bookmark. Now, to shorten the URL of the page you are viewing, click on the bookmarklet and it will automatically generate the shortened URL for you.

If you have bookmarklets for any other services , please do mention it in the comments. If you are a ubiquity user, take a look at the is.gd URL shortening script for ubiquity created by me.