The following four web software can help users create a short URL from a long URL. They exist to solve the various problems of posting a long URL in email message. I don’t think them very useful. On the one hand, in making an email it is trivial to embed a long URL into a more descriptive text. On the other hand, for those who don’t konw how, they may also don’t know these four websites.

My point is that the responsibility to solve the problem of long URLs should go to those websites that generate long and unwieldy URLs and those users who posting them directly into email messages.

Four web software to create a short URL from a long one:

1. TinyURL.com: “Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you’ve come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.”
2. SnipURL: “Website URLs are long and difficult to remember. SnipURL allows you to “snip” your long URLs into small, friendly and persistent links for sharing and remembering. Free!”
3. shorl.com: “To make a long story short: Shorl makes long URLs short.”
4. DigBig: “Shorten a long Web address.”