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Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future

URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting...

ReadWriteWeb | more posts | 61 days | Tue., July 8, '08

Weekend Thoughts, Part….

–> The NY Times article for creating habitual demand for products got the wheels spinning this weekend. The CPG companies are awesome at this to a point of scariness. I’m not even sure how I feel about the FeBreeze example and...

JG etc. | more posts | 38 days | Thu., July 31, '08

The Bit.ly Interview: "No Comment" on Twitter URL Switch and Yes, They Have a Business Plan

This morning I headed down to the Apple Soho neighborhood to meet with the team at Betaworks. I wanted to find out more about the URL shortener that's apparently a tech blogger's dream. The name of the URL shortener is bit.ly and bloggers including...

CenterNetworks | more posts | 47 days | Tue., July 22, '08

Weekend Thoughts, Part….

–> The NY Times article for creating habitual demand for products got the wheels spinning this weekend. The CPG companies are awesome at this to a point of scariness. I’m not even sure how I feel about the FeBreeze example and I’m...

JG etc. | more posts | 55 days | Mon., July 14, '08

The Week That Was

For anyone who reads this blog on a regular or semi-regular basis, it goes without saying it was an All-iPhone-All-The-Time week given the launch of the greatest thing sliced bread (aka the 3G iPhone). Clearly, I got carried away but Rogers did a...

Mark Evans | more posts | 57 days | Sat., July 12, '08

Recent Links on Ma.gnolia

A few interesting things this week … Think Before You Voicemail Tags: voicemail Musing about Information and Long Tail and Publish-Subscribe Tags: twitter, long tail, pubsub NEVER TELL A VC. . . : Texas Startup Blog Tags: venture capital, vc 8...

Fast Wonder Blog | more posts | 58 days | Sat., July 12, '08

Bit.ly Provides Shorter URLs with Advanced Traffic Tracking [Links]

Link-shortening services like TinyURL have become nearly ubiquitous in space-restricted places like email, Twitter, and mobile sites—which is why it's odd it's taken so long for a similar service to offer traffic tracking, thumbnail caching,...

Lifehacker | more posts | 60 days | Wed., July 9, '08

bit.ly = TinyURL + Google Cache + Web Stats + RSS Feeds

TinyURL is probably the most popular URL shortener out there but they are in for some serious competition from bit.ly - a newcomer that is seriously very good. If you share links in emails or the social web, here are three reasons why bit.ly will...

Digital Inspiration | more posts | 60 days | Wed., July 9, '08

Bit.ly and Semantic Mapping

Well this is geekilicious… not sure what application this will result in but it’s still geek chic. In the background, Bit.ly is analyzing all of the pages that its users create shortcuts to using the Open Calais semantic analysis API...

Venture Chronicles | more posts | 61 days | Tue., July 8, '08

Betaworks Launches Bit.ly, A Smarter TinyURL

Launching today: Bit.ly, a new Web URL-shortening tool from NYC-based tech shop Betaworks. What is it? Like TinyURL, is.gd, and others, Bit.ly takes a long URL and makes it shorter, ideal for Twittering, emailing, IMing, whatever. Unlike all the...

Silicon Alley Insider | more posts | 61 days | Tue., July 8, '08

Bit.ly launches today

First, go read Marshall Kirkpatrick's awesome writeup of bit.ly. I was part of the team that defined the product, the development was done at Betaworks in NY (where I am right now), the team led by John Borthwick, and a bunch of ex-AOLers. Betaworks...

Scripting News | more posts | 61 days | Tue., July 8, '08