I was using TinyURL the other day and decided on a whim to see what was located at MiniURL.org. As expected, there was a similar service to TinyURL’s: enter an URL and whammo, a shortened link.
What was pretty thoughtful was that MiniURL automatically copies the url to your clipboard. That’s a nice touch, since I’d expect the next task for most users would be to paste the url into an email or a blog post. Of course, there’s the problem that it overwrites whatever is currently in your clipboard. So, there might be a collision of expectations for some users.
I appreciate the concern anyway, even if it doesn’t work with Safari.
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