Today sees the launch of Soa.pe a new free service that allows you to shorten long URL links clean them up and also hide your referrer from the link destination website.
It is very easy to use you just head over to soa.pe and type the link into the box you want to shorten, there is also an option to choose your own custom keyword or it will generate one for you and then that is it, voila a new short link with referrer hiding and ssl to boot.