Cruise Bruise Blog
April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009
It's Official - We're Tinier!

For the past five years I have owned the domain name i-hug.com. Over the years we have wanted to use it for a variety of purposes, but none really got fully baked. At last, I've come up with an idea that is perfect.

When I tweet, at Twitter, I am limited to 140 characters. This puts a crimp in the posting style, so tiny url conversation sites have been popping up, such as tinyurl.com.

The poster enters a long url and gets back a small, bot generated "tiny url", such as http://tinyurl.com/######.  That can take a url from 100 characters and covert it into 29 characters, giving more room for the message in the 140 character tweet.

Now, with the launch of i-hug.com, I can crunch a url down to:

http://i-hug.com/1/1.html

The url above is the url I tweeted for this post, it brings you to this page.

This means the url in my tweets will only be 25 or 26 characters, long after Tiny Url is crunching to 30 characters or more. While the whole world is racing to get bigger in almost every respect, we became tiniest on Earth Day!

Best of all, it is our own brand. i-Hug, so we control the content.