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Recently, Microsoft announced a range of improvements brought to its SkyDrive cloud service, in an attempt to provide users with a better experience at all times, including when sharing docs or links with their contacts. With SkyDrive, users no longer needed to share files via email, but could take advantage of the... |
18 May 2012
08:35 GMT |
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It has been a well known mantra for many years, the internet loves cats. There's never enough cats on the internet and anything and everything becomes better when add cats into the mix.But no one has stood to question this axiom, especially since empirical evidence suggests that it's true.Alas, the scientis... |
25 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Bit.ly is finally starting to leverage the power of the huge amounts of data that pass through the service every day. Bit.ly is popular enough to have a rather good idea of what links are popular, which are viral and, more importantly, which will be in the short term future.
Because that's what Bit.ly's ... |
14 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Bit.ly is still the biggest URL shortener out there. It sees a lot of traffic via the short links every day so it's in a particularly good position to know how links shared on social networks and other sites fare.
The company conducted a study on a sample of links and came up with some very interesting result... |
8 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Bitly is making its Pro service free for everyone and is integrating the paid features into the regular Bitly account. This means that you can now add your own custom short domain and use that for all of your link, while the backend service and analytics are still served by Bitly. "To make our whitelabel service avai... |
16 June 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Twitter is reintroducing a feature it dropped when it upgraded to the New Twitter, automated link shortening. Now, when you add an URL to your tweets, it will automatically be shortened to take up only 19 characters. You can also use your preferred URL shortener, if you want detailed analytics for example."We’v... |
8 June 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the prominent URL-shrinking site, has announced that it's gotten a new CEO, Peter Stern, a known web entrepreneur. The service has gotten its first CEO, in fact, since there was no one at the company filling in the position full time until now. Started as a project of Betaworks, Bit.ly has evolved to the... |
16 May 2011
11:30 GMT |
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The URL shortener fad has gone away, which is actually good news for any serious URL shortener, now they can get down to business and provide the service they're meant to without all of the hype. Bit.ly, still the largest shortener out there, is introducing a brand new mobile site for all those 'smart'... |
18 March 2011
12:46 GMT |
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People have expressed fear that bit.ly, the world's most popular URL shortening service, might experience downtime if the Libyan government decides to shut down Internet in the country.The wave of social unrest that currently sweeps through the Arab world is forcing governments to take radical measures like cutt... |
21 February 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Google's URL shortener is continuing its expansion with the launch of an API to enable third-parties to incorporate the service into their apps or websites. This should give a further boost to Goo.gl which is already considered one of the most stable shorteners out there, not in the least because it's backe... |
11 January 2011
06:27 GMT |
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Bit.ly is launching what is a way the antithesis of its product, a way for bundling multiple links and sharing them via the same short link. That short link will direct users to a Bit.ly landing page which will display excerpts of the pages and even image previews, but will not redirect users to any of the bundled li... |
16 November 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Bit.ly is still the most popular URL shortener on Twitter, according to an analysis of over 1.5 million tweets. Twitpic.com, the photo sharing platform, is the second most popular domain on the microblogging site.Cloud security firm Zscaler gathered 1.5 million links over a period of a few months to determine how man... |
29 October 2010
12:08 GMT |
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Bit.ly remains the most popular URL shortening service out there, despite not being the default one on Twitter anymore. While there is plenty of competition, bit.ly manages to stay ahead, with help from features like the new QR codes for shortened links. QR codes come in really handy for mobile devices and since smar... |
13 October 2010
13:50 GMT |
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Over the previous week, there was a lot of talk about the .ly domain name, which is popular with URL shorteners. After one such service, vb.ly, got its domain registration removed, many were wondering what it meant for others, especially bit.ly, the largest such service. Now NIC.ly, the registry for the .ly ccTLD use... |
11 October 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the largest URL shortener on the web, has announced that it closed a series B round of funding totaling $10 million. The round was led by RRE Ventures and AOL Ventures as well as existing investors contributed. Eric Wiesen, General Partner at RRE, will be joining the bit.ly board."We are excited to announce t... |
8 October 2010
06:20 GMT |
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URL shorteners were somewhat of a fad last year and everyone was getting into the game. The problem was, even back then, that the market was dominated by Bit.ly which enjoyed the ‘approval’ of Twitter as the default link shortening service on Twitter.com. Unfortunately for Bit.ly, Twitter started using it... |
20 July 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Twitter has made an expected announcement, it will be introducing its own URL-shortening service. What’s more, the new service will be used all the time, regardless of whether a link is already shortened with a third-party service. Twitter’s URL shortener will use the t.co domain and will eventually be ro... |
9 June 2010
05:13 GMT |
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URL shorteners were a very hot trend last year with the explosion of Twitter, but, like any other hype-driven movement, it died off eventually. Still, that’s not to say there’s no money to be made from these services, just not enough to sustain hundreds of competitors. Bit.ly is one of the few success sto... |
4 June 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Despite the recent troubles, it’s still a pretty great time to build a service based on or catering to Twitter. A great example of this is bit.ly, Twitter’s ‘official’ URL shortener. The service just keeps on growing and posted record numbers again in March. And the service is about to get eve... |
14 April 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Bit.ly is starting to take advantage of its position of market leader in URL shortening services. The company has been consolidating its position and has been adding new analytics tools and other features, but may finally start earning some real money now that its paid Bit.ly Pro service has been made available to a... |
8 February 2010
09:14 GMT |
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The real-time web has been one of the biggest trends of 2009 and one that is likely to play an important role in 2010. Yet, even as everyone agrees on its importance and that it is growing, very few people have actual numbers to back up these assumptions. Twitter would be one, of course, but apart from saying that i... |
19 January 2010
09:20 GMT |
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The URL shortener 'wars' have quieted down lately and everyone was getting accustomed to Bit.ly's unchallenged dominance in the space. With close to 80 percent market share a few months ago and still enjoying its position as the default shortener on twitter.com, the outcome seemed more than clear. The... |
7 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Bit.ly's biggest asset at the moment is the amount of data it's been collecting, especially for the past months since the service took off. It's been using it to provide publishers with analytics for a while now and has recently introduced a premium service with even more stats Bit.ly Pro. Now, it... |
18 December 2009
08:17 GMT |
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With both Google and Facebook taking swipes at it and invading its home territory, even if with veiled intentions, it didn't take long for Bit.ly, the biggest name in URL shorteners at the moment and undisputed market leader, to respond. Just as Facebook was revealed to be testing Fb.me and Google introduced Go... |
15 December 2009
04:32 GMT |
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For a while, as Twitter was taking off, URL shorteners were all the rage all of a sudden. New services were popping up left and right to the point where saying the market was saturated was an understatement. Soon enough, Bit.ly became the de facto URL shortener after Twitter chose it as the default service for the si... |
14 November 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Despite a crowded market for URL shorteners, the “war” was pretty much over before it started, at least with the way things stand now. By being the default URL shortener on Twitter, Bit.ly enjoys a solid lead over any other competing service with more than 70 percent market share.Still, this isn't st... |
5 September 2009
06:03 GMT |
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URL-shortening service Bit.ly has managed to land pretty big collaborations with some of the web's more important services. Benefiting from a successfully built API (Application Programming Interface), large companies around the web have started to use its “Twitter famous” URL-shortening services.Tod... |
28 August 2009
07:50 GMT |
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The recent news surrounding the Tr.im closure had quite a few worried about the future of their shortened links. While millions of links are shared using this type of services every day there is no guarantee that the links will still work tomorrow or next year. Fortunately, in light of the concerns raised, some URL s... |
14 August 2009
12:02 GMT |
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It didn't take long for solutions to be proposed after the announcement of the URL shortening service Tr.im's shutdown. Bit.ly, the reason why it was closing in the first place, has approached Nambu Networks, Tr.im's parent company, inviting it to join the 301works project, which aims to be an open arc... |
11 August 2009
04:58 GMT |
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It was bound to happen sooner or later; with the sheer number of URL shorteners out there, Tr.im is shutting down. After failing to achieve the popularity that would guarantee it a revenue, or at least more funding, the service has thrown down the gauntlet saying it can't compete with Bit.ly, the shortening serv... |
10 August 2009
02:33 GMT |
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URL shorteners are the latest craze and there seems to be no stopping the wave of new companies and individuals trying to take a piece of the market. But, while there's no shortage of shorteners, none of them is actually making any money. In true startup philosophy, everyone wants to get the user numbers first a... |
1 August 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the popular URL shortening service, has been working on a new product to expand its offerings. Codenamed Bit.ly Now, the new service will aggregate the most popular links used by the system at any given time and provide a way of visualizing and ranking their progress. If it is confirmed, as reported by TechCr... |
1 July 2009
09:12 GMT |
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