Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? You can use Keti to create a short URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. Short URL will redirect to your URL. Keti.ws is also known to create shorter URLs than similar services.

Poll-n-Ping! will ping blog directories and blog search engines when you make a blog post. We constantly monitor your blog and the RSS/Atom feed for changes, if we detect any changes we ping all the downstream services that you have selected to notify. Pinging lets services that index blogs know that your site has been updated, and that they should take a fresh look at it.