Since there are so many URL shortening services around, it might be better to write an article about "universal" URL expansion techniques: websites and extensions that can show the full URL from multiple shortening sites (e.g. tinyurl.com, bitly.com, is.gd, goo.gl, tiny.cc, t.co, etc). Oxa and Nodrog have already mentioned two extensions and bookmarkets. Another good site is longurl.org.
@Nodrog:
It's a bookmarklet that comes from the web site http://urlxray.com (the url is right in the script). Almost no information there about their service, though.
@ak47wong:
You have a good suggestion for an article.
FWIW, URL XRay seems very complete. I jumped on to Twitter and it successfully expanded every short URL that I saw and threw at it, including bit.ly and bitly.com URLs.
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Since there are so many URL shortening services around, it might be better to write an article about "universal" URL expansion techniques: websites and extensions that can show the full URL from multiple shortening sites (e.g. tinyurl.com, bitly.com, is.gd, goo.gl, tiny.cc, t.co, etc). Oxa and Nodrog have already mentioned two extensions and bookmarkets. Another good site is longurl.org.
@Nodrog:
It's a bookmarklet that comes from the web site http://urlxray.com (the url is right in the script). Almost no information there about their service, though.
@ak47wong:
You have a good suggestion for an article.
FWIW, URL XRay seems very complete. I jumped on to Twitter and it successfully expanded every short URL that I saw and threw at it, including bit.ly and bitly.com URLs.
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