diff --git a/home.html b/home.html
index 0880b8d..be90061 100644
--- a/home.html
+++ b/home.html
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
               <a href="#" class="mini-profile-name">Fulano da Silva</a>
               <span class="mini-profile-view">View</span>
             </div>
+            <a class="dropdown-menu-item uri-shortener" href="#">URI shortener</a>
             <a class="dropdown-menu-item" href="options.html">Options</a>
             <a class="dropdown-menu-item" href="network.html">Network config</a>
             <a class="dropdown-menu-item" href="profile-edit.html">Setup account</a>
diff --git a/js/interface_common.js b/js/interface_common.js
index 66f1171..de8222f 100644
--- a/js/interface_common.js
+++ b/js/interface_common.js
@@ -802,6 +802,30 @@ function openConversationModal(peerAlias, resource) {
     });
 }
 
+function openRequestShortURIForm() {
+    if (!defaultScreenName) {
+        alertPopup({
+            //txtTitle: polyglot.t(''), add some title (not 'error', please) or just KISS
+            txtMessage: 'You can\'t short links because you are not logged in.'
+        });
+    }
+    var uri = prompt('enter a link, watch yourself carefully');  // FIXME
+    newShortURI(uri,
+        function (req, uriLong, uriShort) {
+            if (uriShort)
+                alertPopup({
+                    txtTitle: 'URI shortener',
+                    txtMessage: uriLong + ' — `' + uriShort + '`'
+                });
+            else
+                alertPopup({
+                    txtTitle: 'URI shortener',
+                    txtMessage: 'something went wrong. RPC error message:\n' + (uriShort && uriShort.message) ? uriShort.message : uriShort
+                });
+        }
+    );
+}
+
 function fillElemWithTxt(elem, txt, htmlFormatMsgOpt) {
     var formatted = htmlFormatMsg(txt, htmlFormatMsgOpt);
 
@@ -2251,6 +2275,8 @@ function initInterfaceCommon() {
     $('.tox-ctc').on('click', promptCopyAttrData);
     $('.bitmessage-ctc').on('click', promptCopyAttrData);
 
+    $('.uri-shortener').on('click', openRequestShortURIForm);  // FIXME implement Uri Shortener Center with links library etc
+
     if ($.fn.textcomplete) {
         $('.post-area-new textarea')
             .on('focus', {req: getMentionsForAutoComplete}, setTextcompleteOnEventTarget)
diff --git a/js/twister_actions.js b/js/twister_actions.js
index 28e90df..4f178ca 100644
--- a/js/twister_actions.js
+++ b/js/twister_actions.js
@@ -322,6 +322,37 @@ function newRtMsg(postData, msg) {
     }
 }
 
+function newShortURI(uri, cbFunc, cbReq) {
+    if (!uri || !defaultScreenName) return;
+
+    for (var i in twister.URIs)
+        if (twister.URIs[i] === uri) {
+            if (typeof cbFunc === 'function')
+                cbFunc(cbReq, uri, i);
+            return;
+        }
+
+    twisterRpc('newshorturl', [defaultScreenName, lastPostId + 1, uri],
+        function (req, ret) {
+            if (ret) {
+                ret = ret[0];  // FIXME there should be 1 element anyway for daemon version 93500
+                twister.URIs[ret] = req.uri;
+                $.localStorage.set('twistaURIs', twister.URIs);
+                incLastPostId();
+            } else
+                console.warn('RPC "newshorturl" error: empty response');
+
+            if (typeof req.cbFunc === 'function')
+                req.cbFunc(req.cbReq, req.uri, ret);
+        }, {uri: uri, cbFunc: cbFunc, cbReq: cbReq},
+        function (req, ret) {
+            console.warn('RPC "newshorturl" error: ' + (ret && ret.message) ? ret.message : ret);
+            if (typeof req.cbFunc === 'function')
+                req.cbFunc(req.cbReq, req.uri, ret);
+        }, {uri: uri, cbFunc: cbFunc, cbReq: cbReq}
+    );
+}
+
 function updateProfileData(profileModalContent, username) {
 
     //profileModalContent.find("a").attr("href",$.MAL.userUrl(username));