The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight

Re:The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight by aneesh on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @02:12PM (#135343)

Yeah, I could see this being useful. One drawback is that it takes away the original url - if I send my friend an un-highlighted CNN url, s/he can see it's from CNN.com, whereas you can't with a highlighted article.

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Re:The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight by spydez on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @02:18PM (#135351)

Agreed. I avoid clicking on tinyurl.com links for this very reason.

And are long urls a big deal? I found a titanium spork the other day on Amazon, and my friends were fine with the giant honkin' link I IMed. On blogs, forums and the like, you can always hide the giant url behind some hyperlink text.

The only good use of shortened URLs I've seen is in IRC channel topics.

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Re:The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight by thorax on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @03:31PM (#135407)

Tiny URLs got a resurgence in a world of SMS and Twitter.

(Full disclosure: I have a simple URL shrinking service myself, http://ri.ms -- not pretty, but functional)

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