SPECIAL THANKS TO STEVE BRUHN, JEANNE CRISTIANO, ERIK DAUPLAISE, RAY GAUTHIER, GARY HOKE, JOE JACKSON, BRYAN LOVELESS, GREGORY MAMAYEK, JEAN POOLE AND PATRICK TRUDEAU FOR THEIR SUBMISSIONS. DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR UNCUT SET OF READER SUBMISSIONS.
Meet Kevin Gilbertson, a clever young Web developer from Minnesota. Kevin created a site called TinyURL.com two years ago. The free service takes those annoyingly long URLs (the kind you might find in newsgroups or on Web-generated map sites) and converts them into cute little links that fit in your browser's address bar with enough space to write a sonata.
We decided to test it on the very worst URL we could imagine ... one of our own:
http://as.cmpnet.com/event.ng/Type=click&FlightID=19849&AdID=30635&TargetID= 977&Segments=1249,1411,3108,3448&Targets=977,2625,2878&Values=34,46,51,63,77, 82,90,100,140,222,227,279,382,442,618,656,940,1184,1266,1388,1716,1767,1785, 1901,1925,1935,1936,1970,2299,2310,2326,2352&RawValues=&Redirect=http://ad. doubleclick.net/clk;7064623;8776123;n%3Fhttp://www.veritas.com/offer%3Fa_id%3D4692
We ran it through TinyURL.com, and lo and behold, the URL became http://tinyurl.com/2ncv6. Ah, the simplicity! Still, what did you say your business model was again, Kevin?
(A tip o' the hat to our own Tom LaSusa for this Teenie-Weenie Thingy.)
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