A typical URL for a product at 109things looks like this http://www.109things.com/item/Tom-Cruise-Unauthorized-Biography/0312359861.

The benefit of this URL format is that you can actually see the title of the item in it. Therefore, it informs you what you are about to click.

But there are times when you just want to send the URL to a friend over email and are worried about broken strings. So is there a tiny URL?

All you have to do is to remove the words in the middle that describes the product and replace it with a hyphen (-), like this http://www.109things.com/item/-/0312359861.

That’s all there is