Open URL Shortener Alternatives

Open URL Shortener

Open URL Shortener is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses, this is useful in many circumstances e.g. in Twitter or in email clients that break long URLs, For example, you can turn:

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+14%C2 %B035%2740.84%22N++90%C2%B031%273.78%22W&ie=UTF8&z=17

Into:
http://rod.gs/b

Here are just a few of the many uses for Open URL Shortener's URL shortening service:

Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter
Certain uses of Open URL Shortener are forbidden, for example use in unsolicited commercial email (SPAM).