Does anyone know or have experience of the life span of compressed URLs from the various services? (tiny, bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) I know what they promise, but...
I may need to use them in txt message replies that visitors can get as a sort of bookmark or aide memoire when taking our new cellphone tour. Links to related info for objects in the collection would be useful and space is short, but I don't want to txt out URLs that will expire too quickly. Nor do I know how quickly is too quickly. Some earlier research with 'bookmark' emails in Tate Modern's multimedia tour by Silvia Filippini Fantoni showed that people will keep the info they've emailed themselves for months in their in-boxes. What's the half-life of a txt message? I started a blog thread on the topic on the Museum Mobile wiki: http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/645 Thanks for any insights you have! Nancy
