As I continue to hone my abilities of predicting the future, I’d like to submit another one for your amusement.
I see an interesting twist on URL shorteners becoming a direct part of corporate web strategies.
We first caught a glimpse of this on April 19th 2009 when a New York Times enthusiast created NytUrl.com, a URL shortener aimed at The New York Times web site articles. Promptly there after, it was shut down.
Shortly there after, Tech Crunch launched its own Short URL: http://tcrn.ch
Today, Amazon jumps into the game with their Short URL: http://amzn.com
Amazon actually has a very unique opportunity in their short URL offering to the web community with their product ISBN Numbers. All you need to access a product on Amazon is http://amzn.com + ISBN
Its time for companies to add URL shortening to their web strategy, now.
My corporate job reminds me, daily, that the reality of an average web strategy is no where near such an agenda - They’re still talking SEO/SEM/PPC/BLOG/ECT.
So, go while you can and register all the cleverly shortened and truncated URL’s.
My lottery ticket to you.
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added these pithy words on MrSpockSDHi, folks. My name is Frank (or MrSpock, because of my ears and my dream). I have started programming in 1985 and I work as a software developer now. I am basically both an old-school programmer (started with Pascal) and a new one (a child of the Internet era HTML, PHP) at the same time. I have basically lost a decade in the programming world. Losing the nineties is not as bad as it seems; I skipped the Windows era
My dream in life is to develop affordable space travel and space tourism. As a result I also love collecting space related photos made by both pro’s and amateurs. One of own personal problems is that I tend to become an expert of a subject very quickly, so I have to keep changing subject often in order to stay sufficiently ignorant
This is why I am interested in many topics and many languages. Fortunately space travel has so far proven to be so complex that it will keep my attention for a long time
I’m usually more of just a lurker on the net but I’ll chime in when I feel I need to, looking forward to meeting everyone and being a part of the community! Well I won’t bore you guys and girls any longer, see you all around!
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