Short-Sight of Short URLs
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Now a days we are flooded with a crowd of short URLs that inadvertently find their way to Blogs, Posts and other such places. By nature, these URLs do not disclose the source of the content. However, once ported to a larger medium like a Blog or Forum, they need to disclose their final target. A need of the hour is to get some Plugin or Service that can either Re-Expand them to original or Tooltip them with the original URL where word limit is not a constraint.
Example: http://bit.ly/b2NoCF becomes http://bit.ly/b2NoCF (with tooltip, hover to view) or http://timeline-studios.com/blogs/2010/02/i-would-have-loved-if-my-mobile-and-tv-did-this/ (complete URL)
WordPress Plugin Anyone?
2 Responses to “Short-Sight of Short URLs”
Couple of firefox extensions are there which do this. Set them up to expand in the webpage or view tooltips.
Will try and locate or create a WordPress plugin for this. Probably it’s already there, but have to search deep.