BurnURL is a new URL shortening service that brings a very exciting and new aspect to the field int he form of easy social sharing.

There has been a glut of URL shortening services in the market for some time, but the vast majority of them just did the following where they turned something like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/02/25/galaxy.planets.kepler/index.html?eref=rss_tech

into this

http://tinyurl.com/ahjs53

While it still may not roll off of your tongue, it’s still a lot simpler to share with someone else.  The problem is that these services have all been a dime a dozen, doing the exact same thing, and adding nothing new to the space.

Well, last week BurnURL launched and it brings several new features with it that are welcome additions that add greatly to the utility of such a service.  The first change you’ll notice is the addition of handy coding for pasting the new URL into both HTML coded pages and forums that use BBcode.

Once a person clicks on the link you make for them, not only will they be taken to the page you linked, they will also be presented with a toolbar at the top of the page that provides them with social sharing tools.

With this tool bar in place, you can share the page you are reading on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, FriendFeed, Mixx, Reddit, Delicious or StumbleUpon as well as rating with the BurnUrl site.  The bar will also tell you how many pepople have liked the page, how many people have clicked on the link and also what the actual URL of the page is.

Go aheadand give one a try by visiting http://burnurl.com/JZ24lZ that will take you back to this very site.

(Disclosure: BurnURL is partially owned by Adam Ostrow with whom I work with at Mashable.  This post however was in no way influenced by our working relationship, it’s just a great service)