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Goo.gl URL shortener bookmarklet

I know there are already a bunch of tools for doing this same thing, but I’m a big google fanboi. The nice thing about goo.gl is they have an API which makes accessing the shortener easy. Matthew Flashen already wrote some JS for a bookmarklet for this. You just save that into your bookmarks, I saved it to my Delicious bookmarks, and you can call it on whatever URL. It alerts you the shortened URL and just copy and paste from there. Sweet!

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2 Responses to “Goo.gl URL shortener bookmarklet”

  1. Ron says:
    March 13, 2010 at 1:54 am

    Hi Tom,

    I know this is not a help forum, and forgive me for spamming your blog.

    Your version of ThickBox is used in Noah’s Classifieds, so I know that you are a ThickBox expert, and the official ThickBox forum is not very active. So I would like to beg a little help of you.

    I have Noah’s Classifieds in an iframe (in Joomla) and I would like to open ThickBox in the parent frame, is this possible? If so, how?

    Also, I would like to call a function when ThickBox loads. How do I do this?

    As I said, I know this is not a help forum and I do expect you to delete this message from your blog. However, I would appreciate the few minutes it takes for you to answer my questions.

    Thanks,
    Ron Wade

  2. Tom says:
    April 4, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    Sure, I can help, but you didn’t leave any contact info :(

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