Crenk Technology » Smart Links http://crenk.com Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Reviews Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:07:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Google Mobile: Links Getting Shorter and Smarter http://crenk.com/2009/07/30/google-mobile-links-getting-shorter-and-smarter/ http://crenk.com/2009/07/30/google-mobile-links-getting-shorter-and-smarter/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:29:57 +0000 Augusto Alvarez http://crenk.com/?p=4523 Google Mobile: Links Getting Shorter and Smarter originally appeared on: Crenk
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]]> googlemobileIf you have some kind of mobile addiction and feel the necessity to constantly check your email with your mobile; I’m pretty sure that you usually get uncomfortable trying to use the small screen on your phone. Well this is not a revolutionary invention, but it keeps reminding me that Google is trying to keep things simpler: “Smart Links” automatically shortens long links and converts them into named links.

This is what you usually when you are reading an email with a long link:

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And Smart Links converting it like this:

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Of course these links, at least for now, will only work with Google related sites: Google Maps, Google Sites web pages and YouTube videos (but they are expecting to make it available soon for Google Docs as well).

There’s an important disclaimer about the use of this feature: only works with plain text emails.

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