Welcome
Welcome to aURL. The site is just launched, but plenty of work is going on in the background.The look and feel of the site is a work in progress so expect it to change quite a bit for a while.
We are gathering information for our URL Shortening and Redirection Services directory. There are lots out there, so we expect the directory to take a long time to build. One of the factors affecting this service niche is the availability of free, low cost, and homegrown programs to perform url shortening and redirection. Some of these services come and go in a short period of time. One of the articles I started with, written just over a year ago, listed quite a few sites that are already gone or replaced with one of those generic ad sites that catches some web traffic. So, job number one will be finding sites that are operational and continuing to ensure they are still in operation to make sure our directory is up to date.
For those interested in understanding these services a bit better or wanting to build your own, we will be finding tutorials about developing url shortening and redirection scripts, and listing sources of scripts to do the job.
Keep coming back. We expect to make regular updates starting very soon.