A short step in URL-shorteners
Saturday, March 07, 2009 by Dave Winer.
Progress in the art of twittering comes incrementally. This suggestion is a very small increment but one that would make the job of a frequent linker, such as myself, a little easier. 
I would like my URL-shortener to grab the title of the page I'm linking to and insert it into the typing box, before the shortened URL.
Suppose for example I wanted to link to a post Doc's site. From that page, I'd click on the bookmarklet in the toolbar of my browser, it would take me to the shortener page, and this is what I'd see:
Then I click Submit, and off I go. This is a step I do manually now. Better if it were automatic!
Any URL-shortener could do it. The first is likely to get my business.
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