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URL Shorteners

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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Guest David Pogue @pogue, New York Times technology columnist and author of  The World According to Twitter joins Leo Laporte, Amber MacArthur, Sarah Lane to discuss his new book. Additional discussion topics cover Flickr, Delicious, URL Shorteners, and more. Net@night, published August 5th, 2009.

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