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FON innovates tinyurl May 7, 2007

Probably because Martin Varsavsky and his team always need to send these awful long URLs (e.g. for FON maps) they used tinyurl a lot. But tinyurl comes up with rather hard to memorize abbreviations so FON's new approach fon.gs is to mesh up tagging with URL shortening. Only drawback: easy to remember tags are often used already and can therefore not be chosen. Well, there is an option to leave the tag input field blank and fon.gs creates a random link. Just as tinyurl… 

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