For those not ‘in the know’, bookmarklets are really handy when you want to strip a URL down in a hurry. This Yahoo! Local Bookmarklet looks pretty promising. Best of all, it works with both IE and Firefox!

I’ve been using Yahoo! Local a lot recently for finding local businesses and restaurants. Sending links to friends, however, is a bit painful because the URLs are so long (and tend to break in email clients).

To make this a little bit easier, I created a bookmarklet that strips the URL down to just the minimum fields, suitable for sending by email. I’ve confirmed this works with IE 6.0 and Firefox 1.0.4 on Windows, but haven’t had a chance to test on a Mac yet. [Read the rest]