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19 Feb 2011 15:03

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Tech: Libya’s unrest won’t affect Bit.ly’s domains at all, guys

  • NO Libya’s unrest won’t affect Bit.ly’s URL-shortening source
  • » When clever names go bad: As we have noted in the past, Bit.ly’s name is tied very closely to Libya. However, as the Interwebs have gone down of late in the country, many are wondering if this means anything bad for the URL shortener market, which also counts owl.ly and ht.ly as potential victims, among others. We’ll let Bit.ly’s CEO, John Borthwick, take it from here: “For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative *all* have to be offline, or responding with empty responses. Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherlands and two are in Libya.” And plus, they have backup plans in place, like j.mp or bitly.com. So no, nothing to worry about.
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02 Dec 2010 12:24

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Tech: Bitly News gives short links the Hacker News treatment

  • Thinks we like: Bit.ly. Twitter. Hacker News. Bitly.tv. Now what if someone mashed up Bit.ly links found on Twitter to look like Hacker News, but with the ranking style that Bitly.tv uses? Well, friends, you’d have Bitly News. Which is the coolest thing we’ve seen today. source
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08 Oct 2010 15:11

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Tech, World: Thanks, Libya: Bit.ly links could become a thing.ly of the past.ly

  • standing out, clever.ly A popular way to make your name stand out nowadays is to have the domain end in .ly, something hugely popular Twitter-centric services such as Bit.ly and Hootsuite (though its ow.ly and ht.ly services) have taken advantage of. The two-letter length also helps. Oh yeah, Mitt Romney uses it for his mitt.ly domain.
  • unfortunate.ly for themPerhaps this wasn’t thought through all the way, because the .ly domain is owned by Libya, a country not exactly known for its sparkling human rights record. And the country is upset about all the NSFW links that get shared on the services, putting entire business models in danger. Uh-oh. source
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14 Apr 2010 22:51

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Tech: The most useless quote from Chirp comes from will.i.am

  • I love the world of social connectivity, the real-time responses and connections, the same thing that crippled the industry I live in. Now you can surf people’s thoughts.
  • will.i.am • Discussing why he likes Twitter. He seemed like a strange presence at the conference (especially after he suggested bands will have official programmers). And what a conference it is – Twitter introduced a bunch of crap that directly steps on the toes of what developers are already doing with the technology, going so far as to offer their own URL shortener. Well crap. There goes the neighborhood, kids. source
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18 Feb 2010 21:29

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Offbeat: Your shortened URL isn’t shady enough. This is a job for ShadyURL

  • We admit that this amuses us greatly. Why merely shorten your URL? Why not make it sound like you’re sending your friend to an exploit site? We totally support this. source
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17 Dec 2009 21:53

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Tech: Bitly.tv is the best video tweeting tool we’ve ever seen. Ever.

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  • This is officially awesome. Bit.ly, as you might guess, captures tons of data every single time you throw one of your short links into their shortener. Bitly.tv gathers all of the videos linked and tells you about the most popular ones. Why should you care about this? Simple. It’s better than YouTube’s own popular videos tool. Significantly better. We’re impressed. Keep an eye on this site, guys. source
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13 Oct 2009 11:01

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Tech: The URL shortener race has already been won by Bit.ly

See that blue line? That’s bit.ly. See that green line? That’s TinyURL, getting its lunch eaten because it has no analytics. See those other lines? That’s everyone else. source
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19 Aug 2009 10:27

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Tech: Cut it out: Tr.im was closing. Now it’s going public domain.

  • It is our hope that tr.im, being an excellent URL shortener in its own right, can now begin to stand in contrast to the closed twitter/bit.ly walled garden.
  • A statement from the Nambu staff • Regarding tr.im’s plans to become an open-source alternative to bit.ly, currently the most popular URL shortener. We understand what they’re going for and appreciate it, but we wish they’d do it with a lot less public attacking of their competition. • source
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09 Aug 2009 22:11

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Tech: tr.im gets whiny, shuts down their URL shortener, blames Twitter

  • What is the point? With bit.ly the Twitter default, and with us having no inside connection to Twitter, tr.im will lose over the the long-run no matter how good it may or may not be at this moment, or in the future.
  • A message posted on the tr.im blog • Saying that despite the site’s popularity, they don’t feel like the service will succeed and they’re going to shut it down. The post attacks other targets besides Twitter and bit.ly – including TweetMeme. They feel that they can’t sell the statistical information because everyone else has it. Nobody wanted to buy the service. And it just wasn’t worth it anymore. Twitter is now gonna be a graveyard of useless shortened links. Great. • source
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29 Jul 2009 23:35

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Tech: Like URL shorteners but hate their randomness? Try ctxt.us

Cool little idea that, if it evolves the right way, could just give sites like Bit.ly a run for the money. *golf clap* source
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