| Company | ReadBurner |
| Website | burnurl.com |
| Blog | blog.readburner.com |
| Stage | Beta |
| Launched | 3/09 |
Like other link shorteners, BurnURL lets users take a long URL and turn it into a short one, in the form of http://burnurl.com/bFuAHm. Users can do this either on the homepage or by using the company’s bookmarklet, which lets users “burn†a URL from anywhere.
When users click a BurnURL, a “ShareBar†provides links to share the story on popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg, shows a hit count showing how many times the link has been visited, and displays options to vote the story up or down and see the overall rating from visitors.
