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Bit.ly Offers In-Gmail URL Shortening Gadget

By Gina Trapani on December 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM

URL-shortening service Bit.ly now offers a Gmail gadget that helps you make sure the long web site addresses you send out via email don’t get wrapped and become unclickable. To install the Bit.ly gadget—which just adds a Bit.ly URL shortener module to Gmail’s sidebar—you have to have “Gadgets by URL” enabled in Gmail’s Labs section. Then, in the Gadgets tab in Settings, add this URL:

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107368512201818821991/bitly-shortener.xml

When Gmail refreshes you’ll have the Bit.ly gadget on your sidebar, as shown.

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Dion

December 6, 2008 at 5:51 AM

I suggest http://sn.vc is better.

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