I just installed Pretty Link Pro here at http://yourgotoguy.com. Read on to find out why…
I’m using this site as a micro-blog. It’s great for letting me make posts be as long as I want. I can also add Videos, pictures, audios, and update Twitter with a short url back to the microblog. Now sure there are services that do this, but they are all separate services: Qik and ScreenJelly for videos. Twitpic for pictures,VR+ for audio from my crackberry. Bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and su.pr for short urls.
The problems with all these separate sites are that 1) they are separate sites, and 2) I have no control over them.
Pretty Link Pro helps me turn this microblog into all of those. I can add my posts here, including video, pictures, audio, etc. Or I can just have longer posts like this one.
Pretty Link Pro will automatically update twitter with the title of this link, plus a tiny link hosted from my site. I own the link. I can see all the stats by logging into my blog and I won’t lose all of my links when all of those tiny url services bite the dust.