You must have come across many websites which shorten the URL of news articles and help you in posting the shortened URL into social networking sites. Some URL shortening services also provide options to customize the shortened URL.

Here is another URL shortening service which not only shortens the lengthy URLs, but at the same time allows you to upload photos and share it via social networking sites like twitter, digg and delicious.

Virl also provides a browser plug-in which could be simply dragged and dropped into the browser toolbar. With this plug-in you can easily shorten a lengthy web URL and add a description to it in one click.