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!
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
A Web 2.0 Story: esyURL Creates Short URLs And Detects Mobile Web Browsers
Sometimes it’s almost unbelievable how well ideas spreed within web 2.0: Exactly two weeks ago, Charlie Schick wrote on his blog that he would like to have services that create short URLs out of long URLs for easy referencing in blogs, instant messenge…
Tapp.it does all this and a bit more…
http://tapp.it
Nice Blog posts. You should check out http://www.ssurl.info
I don’t want to type in a painfully long url on my phone. I want to press one button on my phone and have that painfully long url converted into a tinyurl.
hi.
this issue was bugging me as well. So i made a “mobile tiny url” service: http://mtny.mobi/
this one uses mowser to mobilize a webpage.