If “Tinyurl” is becoming a verb with you, you’ll want to check out Notlong’s wrapup of short link generators.
The short link generators, about ten of them, are arranged in a table. The table contains a variety of information including default links, expiration, whether or not statistics and custom links are available, whether or not an API is available, and what languages are being checked. Not all short link generators are included here, but there are several. [ResearchBuzz]
a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself