Nowadays short urls have become necessary and a good url shortener a priority.

If you are a frequent Twitterer or other social networks user you should know what tiny urls are and how to get them. Think for example at how it could be annoying to send a long url including often a lot of parameters through a SMS … it could seem a neverending job. Moreover a long URL is prone to mistyping or misunderstanding.

A URL shortener is a Web site that will create a short Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web page address from a long one so that the short version, which is easier to remember and enter, can be used instead. Short URLs, often referred to as tiny urls, are basically shortcut for long URLs. Each tiny URL is mapped to a long URL. When a person visit the tiny URL, she will be redirected to the original long URL. By going to a free Web site service like TinyURL.com or AS.VG, you can swap your long URL for a short one. The URL shortening service will maintain the association between the two and will redirect anyone who enters the short URL to the page at the long URL.

Short URLs are used for:

• Forum posts, blogs, emails, IMs where long URLs may be wrapped or broken
• Twitter, SMS, IM status where there are limited number of characters
• Hiding original URL of affiliate links
• Obscuring your real email address from spy bots and email harvesters

Some of the features of AS.VG are:

• it is one of, if not, the shortest URL shortening service on the web, with its 4 characters length
• it is free and easy to use
• URLs shortened by AS.VG never expire

Definitely bookmarked!

I do not usually review poker websites, but Treasure Poker is just a little exception, expecially because Treasure Poker is quite different from other poker related websites I visited lately. It offers quality and quantity with an easy navigation structure and a lot of useful information.

But what is a web portal and why TreasurePoker.com is a great poker portal.

A web portal is a term for a World Wide Web site whose purpose is to be a major starting point for users when they connect to the Web. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, CNET, AOL, and MSN. Examples of niche portals that are accessible to the public include Garden.com for gardeners, Fool.com for investors, DPReview.com for photographers and, I like to think, TreasurePoker.com for poker players.

Whether you just play for fun or for real money at an online poker room, this site can provide you with tips, help and advice to put your game in shape. Read strategy articles from professional poker players, watch videos of great tournaments, learn your odds of winning a given hands, read the recent posts in the blog. No one starts as a pro, but if you enjoy the strategy and thrill of the game, there are plenty of things that you’ll be able to pick up to increase your chances of winning. Like anything else in life, practice makes perfect (and knowing a few tips and tricks doesn’t hurt either).

But the website also explores the entire world surrounding the poker game, including latest poker jobs available in the entertainment industry, a hotel section for popular poker destinations, a shop section with poker gadgets and a lot of other things just to discover.

Enjoy!

An interesting idea is at the base of this website. Tell Your Buddy offers remotely hosted tell a friend forms that you can put on your website to encourage visitors to share it with their friends. Tell Your Buddy is also a proxy site so you may enjoy unrestricted and uncensored browsing.

Browsing through Tell Your Buddy both keeps you anonymous from the sites you visit and allows you to bypass any network restrictions from your government, workplace or college. You can also overcome the slowing down of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) in reaching a specific website.

But above all Tell Your Buddy provide the unique capability to social bookmark your findings so that you can store a webpage url and reach that later on, for example at home.

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