What is abbrV8?

AbbrV8 (pronounced 'abbreviate'), is link-shortening and sharing done right. You provide a long or complicated URL, and we give back to you a much shorter URL, and the option to email that URL to your friends.

Example:

Let's say you want to email this link to someone:

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Complete-Second-Eliza beth-Mitchell/dp/B000FIMG68/sr=8-1/qid=116792941 3/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5109192-0895168?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

See the problem? It's going to get chopped into multiple lines, and be a hassle to be cut-and-pasted.

Run that link through abbrV8, and you'll get something like this:

http://abbrv8.com/jh

Much better - and as an added bonus, you can email to friends directly from abbrV8.com as well (click "I'm Feeling Social" to go straight to the emailing step after creating your link).

Bookmarklet

A bookmarklet can be dropped onto your "favourites" or "bookmarks" toolbar, to give you a one-click way to create a new abbrV8 link.

abbrV8!

Drag-and-drop the above link into your toolbar, and the next time you're on a page you want abbrV8, just click the button. Simple.

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