I created the two URL shortening services: emailURL.com and anonURL.com several years ago as a side project to support another side project. It’s a great service that allows you to create short URLs that don’t break in email messages. How many times has someone replied to an email saying the link you provided doesn’t work. In most cases its a matter of manually copying and pasting the parts of the link that were broken by the word wrapping. With emailURL.com its simple to create a short url that works everywhere.
I use these services every day but I never made it easy for someone else create shortened URLs. Today, I added a bookmarklet on both site’s home pages to facilitate usage.
To make it easy to integrate into other projects, I have built a SOAP API to call the create functions remotely. Stay tuned for more details after we complete beta testing.
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