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South African flavoured URL shorteners

View Comments 24 February 2010

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Last week, South African Tourism launched mzan.si – the first ever SA URL shortener – and the Quirk team are thrilled to have been a part of the process! Created and developed by the QuirkStars as part of SAT’s 2010 FIFA World Cup™ campaign, mzan.si allows anyone to shorten, track and share links easily through a number of social networks.

I happen to know that another local URl shortener has been around for a long while. That URL shortener is caledl href.co.za and guess what it does: allows anyone to shorten and share links easily through a number of social networks.

Was mzan.si really the first ever SA URL shortener then?

[update]

GatorURL is also another URL shortener launched about a year ago by the South African folks over at Afrigator.


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Rafiq Phillips - who has written 1144 posts on Web AddiCT(s);.

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  1. Johann says:

    10and5.com has been using its own internal URL shortening device for the last 4 or 5 months now. Not open for public though.

  2. Rob says:

    Rafiq, you're absolutely right!
    It's certainly a first URL shortener used to market tourism in the country.
    Thanks for the tip!
    Rob

  3. It's one of the most simple & innovative ways I've seen tourism being marketed online yet. Really nice! A first for tourism maybe but not “the first ever SA URL shortener”

    Keep the good work coming :)

  4. Sarah M says:

    Yes – that would be the “key phrase” I left out.
    Sorry about that folks.

    *kisses*
    Sarah

  5. Chris M says:

    Ye, it's the first one in the travel industry, but far from the first South African one.


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