Name: BridgeURL
Genius Idea: URL-shortening services have become extremely popular and necessary in today's age of short-form status updates. You've probably already latched on to either Bit.ly, Ow.ly or one of the many others; but newcomer BridgeURL has a completely distinct value proposition that sets it apart from the rest with one useful function -- multiple-link sharing.
With BridgeURL, you can input multiple URLs and click "Create Link" to have the service generate a single URL that you then copy to share on social networks. BridgeURL presents your shared links in slideshow-like format, so each URL is framed with sliders on the left and right sides; this way, visitors can easily navigate through your collection of curated links.
The use cases for this type of tool abound. Designers could use BridgeURL as a way to share their portfolio sites with a single URL. Foodies can amass a slew of their favorite recipes to share with friends and family with a single link. Of course, you could always round up your favorite funny cat videos, too.
BridgeURL uses in-line frames to display content from shared links in its slideshow-style format. Unfortunately, certain websites such as Facebook and PayPal block this functionality, which means sharing URLs to those sites will prove ineffective.
Still, BridgeURL is certainly a convenient and simple utility for sharing buckets of content on the web. The only problem we foresee is that the bootstrapped tool could easily find its feature set replicated by an already funded startup.
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