Danny’s lucid and extensive review of URL shortening services [1] brings his expertise in these matters to our attention once again. However, one "short" coming of many such services is the fact that some may not provide a history of the actual URL and page title for efficient review and reuse over time.

WTF was u0Bf0 again?

Appending an edited version of a shortened URL to a saved Favorite/Bookmark has become yet another step in efficient URL management that could and should be managed by the shortening service itself.

It always pays to scroll past the fold on a web page which is how I actually discovered that bit.ly does in fact store a history of all URLs I can easily review and reuse but I have to be on the bit.ly page which I think is a trade-off I am okay with.

[1] http://bit.ly/u0Bf0