#slink.io

sLink.io is a small project I’ve been working on to address a few issues I’ve experienced when using URL shorteners.

URL shorteners allow you to take a long web address and turn it into a shorter one. People do this mainly because of the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter and to make sharing links easier.

There’s already load of URL shorteners out there, but I think sLink.io is special for two reasons. Firstly, sLink.io allows you to preview the webpage before you're redirected. Many other services redirect you automatically, and while this is faster, it’s not always safe since you may end up at a nasty website without any warning!

Second, sLink.io is Smart and can detect what country the person who clicked your link is currently in. This is particularly useful if you want to localise the content you’re sharing depending on your audience. For example, suppose I want to share a link to Amazon on my blog. Most of my readers are located in the USA, UK and China, so do I link to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.cn? With sLink.io I can link to all three, but with just one link! So when somebody in China clicks on http://slink.io/HQBGB they will visit Amazon.cn, when somebody in the UK clicks the same link, they will visit Amazon.co.uk and so on.

sLink.io是我最近作的自己项目，因为我要解决些难题关于网址缩短网站。

网址缩短网站让你把长的网址变成短的。人民主要做理由是Twitter短信包括最多140字母。

已经有很多网址缩短网站，但是我觉得sLink.io有两个特别的意思。第一个意思是sLink.io让你被重定向之前看网页。别的网址缩短网站强制你自动地重定向，虽然这是快点儿，但是有的时候这是不安全地因为你可能自动地重定向到危险网站。