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Shrink2One: Shrink Multiple Links

Shrink2One is a URL shrinking service where you can shrink multiple links into a single short one. The service is quite similar to FuseURL. The only difference is the way it lets the user view the fused and shrunken URLs. Check out FuseURL’s full review.

Shrink2One is great for jamming together several links that you want to share to your friends. You don’t have to shrink each one on TinyURL before you paste them on IM’s, forums and blogs. This is also great for sharing links on forums and blogs that allows only one link per comment or post. Most blogs only allow one link per comment, anything greater than that will send the comment to the spam list.

Using the service is easy. Just paste all the links on the form provided and click the “Shrink Now” button. Other cool features of the Shrink2One are the optional Title and Password. The title will give the recipient a general idea on what the content of the URLs are. The password, of course, is for privacy. Since the recently created links are featured on Shrink2One’s website, this will protect your links from being viewed by others if you wish to.

If ever you are in need of a service that converts multiple URLs/links into one, Shrink2One is a great place to start. It beats FuseURL with the privacy feature but I like the way FuseURL presents the fused links. Your choice.

Tags: fuseurl, Shrink URL, Shrink2One, URL

Fuse Together Multiple URLs into a Single URL

FuseURL is a simple web tool that lets you create a single short URL from multiple URLs. What the engine does is it gathers all the websites that you have entered and lets you view those websites in one browser window or tab under a specially made URL and page for you.

To use the service, just place the list of URLs that you want to fuse and add a comment about the list if you want then click the fuse button. FuseURL will then create (as mentioned above) a special URL for you so you can share or email it to your friends. You will notice that the created fused URL comes in two variants:

The first URL will give you a page with links and comment (if any) on top. The viewer can then choose what URL he/she wants to see. Check out the sample in this URL: http://fuseurl.com/6x

The Second URL generally creates a single page containing all the websites you fused together. The sites are separated by forms where you can scroll and navigate from within. Check out the sample in this URL: http://all.fuseurl.com/6x

The FuseURL team is quite concerned with the security of their service when it comes to spam. This is what they have to say (via email interview) regarding spambots:

The goal is to keep Fuse URL service as simple as possible for users. We don’t require any registration or sign-in to use the service. If spambots becomes a problem, we will enable a CAPTCHA before submitting certain type of URLs. But before enabling CAPTCHA, we will try to detect spambots by usage ratios, no images access (spambots do not download images) and by using other known methods. We will also introduce a way to flag the generated links and preview the actual URL before accessing it.

FuseURL is a neat tool that you can use for creating shorter URLs out of different sites that you want to share. Instead of sending out a list of URLs to your friends, you can fuse them together into a simpler, single URL. If the service pushes through, we can look forward to a new level when it comes to managing our bookmarks.

Tags: fuser, fuseurl, uniform resource locator, URL, url redirection