Smub for Crafters

I have something a little techy for you today – but if you’re a crafter who shares links to interesting websites on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or others, you might find this useful.

I’ve been playing around with a new service called Smub lately. It’s a nifty little tool that makes saving and sharing web links much easier. Here’s what I like about it:

First, when I’m on my iPod Touch, I can easily bookmark or share any website just by typing smub.it/ in front of the URL. The same would be true for and iPhone, a Blackberry, or any mobile that accesses the internet.

I can also save web links to my Smub page from my web browser. You can install a simple toolbar for most browsers that lets you jump into Smub with one click.

I especially like this because I find cool things on the web all day long, but I may not want to send all these links out on Twitter as I find them. Bingo – now I just keep them listed on Smub.

When I’m ready to send out a link, I just select it from my list, and choose the place I want to send it from the buttons at the bottom there.

I can add my own comments to the link before it goes out, too.

…And look at the URL for the link! When I bookmark it in Smub, I get to customize it. Which is way cooler than most other URL-shortening services, which generate a random series of numbers and letters.

Lastly, Smub keeps stats on the links I’ve sent out on Twitter – or any other social media system. This helps give me some idea of what kinds of links my Twitter-buddies like best, so I can share more of those. Like, apparently, things related to plarn.

So – I like. I hope you dig it, too!