Shortened url’s are everywhere your inbox, your SNS status updates, offline messages, etc., mainly used because of the message length restrictions imposed by services, so user’s shorten url’s to help share a lengthy message without using many characters.

Saf.li is a URL shortener services that scans the links for viruses and other threats so you can share the links safely on the web!Saf.li is powered by the popular anti-virus software BitDefender. Like other major URL shortening services, saf.li can also be integrated in your website or application using their API. When it’s all clear,  you get the green light and a shortened URL. When it’s not, you get a warning that the link you’re trying to share isn’t safe. In addition to security scanning your URLs Saf.li provides click-through stats on your shortened URL broken down by day, week, month, and country of origin as well as referral links and Twitter mentions.

For those who decide that this sort of security is what they want to offer to the people they share links with, Saf.li offers a bookmarklet to make sharing using Saf.li easy. The service also offers an SDK for complete software integration.  Using saf.li for URL shortening,  you will get the added benefit of antivirus and antiphishing scans, which allow you and your friends to safely share content over the Internet.

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Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 4:46 pm | by Kur-nia-one |