kenfluharty.com

There are many sites that will produce those little URLs we all love,  TinyUrl is probably the best known.   (check out a list of others here)

But the one I use and reconmend is cli.gs.  cli.gs provides analytics on the URLs you create. What for?  I’m glad you asked.  Here is how I use them.

1) Twitter  -  I use twitter a lot, I have a couple hundred followers but do they actually read what I say? how am I supposed to know?   Now it’s easy, I just use cli.gs to provide a link to something cool (or not cool) like this, then I can check my stats on cli.gs site and see how many people opened it!!

2) “friends” – I know you thinking, “what is he talking about now”  well,  do you have a friend or two that you are consistantly taking time out of your busy day to send helpfull links but you have a strong suspicion that they don’t even bother opening them…. ever.  well, I do.   So i use cli.gs.  Now I KNOW I’m wasting my time.  

Will I keep sending my ‘friends’ links?   probably.  I’m guess dumb.