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Bad Hair Day is a great weekly podcast covering tech, new media, and the web. In the latest Bad Hair Day podcast, hosts Dave Winer (Scripting News) and Marshall Kirkpatrick (Read Write Web) are joined by special guests Eric Woodward of tr.im and Brian Hendrickson of rp.ly to discuss the future of URL shorteners. You [...]
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Following the announcement this weekend that Tr.im will shut down it’s URL shortening services, even with Bit.ly stepping in host Tr.im’s URL-mappings indefinitely, or 301works (an archive of URL mappings), there are long-term implications using URL shorteners.
According to TechCrunch, Tr.im accounted for approximately 2-3 percent of the short URLs on Twitter, with bit.ly, the default [...]
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