Vyu.me – Make URLs shorter

At Vyu.me you have an URL shortener that will be a handy tool for sharing long URLs. It may be of real help when you hold internet communications through instant messaging software.

If this conversation requires a lot of URLs going back and forth, users usually copy and paste on their chat windows the long set of characters to access the websites that have to do with their conversation. It is true that one click is enough for visiting that site. But this has two downsides. One of them is that too long URLs will clutter your screen and make it quite annoying after some minutes. On the other hand, there is not the slightest chance that anyone can remember that URL.

Vyu.me provides a simple tool that only requires for you to enter the long URL, and instantly you will get a shorter one. Don’t think that you will get such a simple set of characters that will be easy to remember, but in any case you will benefit from having more tidy e-mails, social network posts, or even printed texts.

This last choice is maybe the best advantage for users. No matter how much we’ve got used to share over the internet all kind of information and links, printed papers are still around (thank God!) and we’ll end up using them often. When we want to give someone a printed URL, that person will find it hard to type the never-ending characters that some webpages require to be accessed. Imagine if he makes a typing mistake and has to type the URL all over again…

The need for short URLs extends to some social networks which have limited characters for the messages you can post, such as Twitter. So this service will certainly help in many different ways.

Also, Vyu.me offers a bookmarklet add-on for your web browser, which you can use to save the sites that grab your attention while browsing the web.