Webolio: My own views on the web

Did it ever occur to anyone, how the guy behind tinyURL might make a living out of his service. The idea is cool, the service’s been around for quite some time now (though I have only heard about it about a year ago), but could there possibly be a way to monetize the service besides the ads that I believe are only viewed by first timers. The service gets apparently a lot of hits according to alexa.

On a different note, I think having a short URL without a hint on where it might redirect you is a little un-neat and sort of diminishes the user friendliness of urls… Instead I easily see TinyURL suggesting relevant keywords instead of a random string…these keywords could also bear the name of the website …

As a future improvement, TinyURL could also give away some sort of plugin to be installed on the web server the url orginates from (for those who might be interested in offering the service to their users). The plugin would allow users to copy a meaningful short form of the URL directly on that web server. Having the domain name sort of puts the URL in a context at least…

 Just a rambling of course!