About
It's simple: You give us a website, and we give you a URL that contains the page's domain name and title.
Why is that useful? Because
http://longr.us/books.slashdot.org/collective-intelligence-in-action
is much more useful to your friends than
http://books.slashdot.org/books/09/02/18/1423251.shtml if you want to
share that page. Also, everybody seems to create URL shortening
services at the moment. A URL enlarging service is just the next logical step!
Summary: Descriptive URLs are nice, but unfortunately not every website uses them. We fix that.
Note for the tech-savvy: Longr.us runs on Google App Engine and uses jQuery.
Final hint: The long URLs are guaranteed to fit in 140 characters.