TinyURLs/URL Shortener
Purpose and Addressees of the Service
A URL Shortener creates an alias for long, complicated URLs. This makes it easier to access web pages on smartphones. Short URLs are also popular in microblogging services, where only a limited number of characters are allowed in each message.
Example
A description of this new service, and a motivation for its use, was published in the ZInfo:
- http://tiny.uzh.ch/t points to this ZInfo article
- http://t.uzh.ch/t is the even shorter version of this
Starting the URL Shortener
generate TinyURLs (login with Switch edu-ID)