Amazon creates URL shortener for its products

Do you use Twitter a lot? Here is a neat way to link Amazon product without a need for any of the URL shortening services like tinyurl.com or bit.ly

Take the normal product URL, extract the identifier part, e.g. ISBN for books or product identifier for other items, and append it at the end of “amzn.com/”

Examples:

http://www.amazon.com/Buyology-Truth-Lies-About-Why/dp/0385523882
becomes
http://amzn.com/0385523882

and

http://www.amazon.com/LG-Network-Blu-ray-Disc-Player/dp/B001UQ6F5M
becomes
http://amzn.com/B001UQ6F5M

Also, if you use Amazon’s wishlists, you can build a short link by appending the wishlist identifier to “amzn.com/w/”. Here is for example my wishlist:

http://amzn.com/w/37ZKKD0NVPAZD

Credit goes to Eric Engleman of Tech Flash for blogging about the trick.


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