Jaxon Brooks

URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?

"URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to consider and a breakdown of popular services, including recommendations and services to avoid (the new DiggBar being one of these).

To make recommendations, I reviewed various services and how they stacked up in a variety of features. All this got dumped into The URL Shortener Mega Chart."

http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204

URL Shortening: Hashes In Practice

"It doesn't get more fundamental than the keys and values of our beloved hash tables. But some of the services use an absurdly small number of characters as keys– 1YU, 808, cuy — to represent the entire Steve McConnell blog URL. Thinking about how they did that leads you to some interesting solutions. For instance, let's compare the result of applying traditional hash functions."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000935.html

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