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Tr.im gives up and shuts down
Nambu also appears to be experience sour grapes over Twitter's decision to use Bit.ly as its default link shortener. The Tr.im blog says that "Twitter has all but sapped us of any last energy to double-down and develop tr.im further. 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."
It's a crowded field, and some players eventually had to be pushed out, but it's a shame to see Tr.im go. I think it was a better product than Bit.ly in some ways, and I'm all for competition and user choice. Too bad Nambu doesn't feel the same way.
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Paul is A Chapel said 1:15AM on 8-10-2009
Tr.im is so much more catchy. That REALLY sucks. Bit.ly? What's a "bitly?"
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Stem said 5:06AM on 8-10-2009
I've always used is.gd instead of bit.ly; that extra available character can make all the difference!
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Aniruddh Dodiya said 5:20AM on 8-10-2009
Well I read somewhere that using 3rd party short url service is a big mistake..until now i was also using the services like tiny url, bit.ly, tr.im but now it's time to think. what if these services out of business, you never know then your hard earnest url that you posted in different services like twitter, face book all handwork gonna blow in a second..
Now It's time to think to create our own url forwarding service..
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feraligatr8 said 7:17AM on 8-10-2009
but trim was like the shortest one!!!!!! :(
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Peter said 8:50AM on 8-10-2009
"I'm all for competition and user choice." - Me too, but when all the services are free and don't have any business model for making money it eventually comes down to personal preference.
Maybe now people will begin to understand that everything on the Internet can't be free and good services and useful information are worth paying for. Just like good service and useful information in the "real world."
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mike k. said 8:57AM on 8-10-2009
Holy crap I hope the domain doesn't get bought by spammers who redirect all the old links to porn or trojan sites.
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neofolklore said 10:31AM on 8-10-2009
the person that gets the domain doesn't get the database.
David432111 said 11:34AM on 8-10-2009
@neofolklore
Though they could still easily make anyone who visits tr.im from any link redirect to a different site.
worstpizza said 10:46AM on 8-10-2009
there is always http://pie.im
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Jash Sayani said 1:27PM on 8-10-2009
WTF?? I just studied the whole API and spent hours designing my app.
Lesson Learnt: Make apps for your own service. Even services like AOL Xdrive can shut down at any time. Google Notebook was a shock too.
Really shocking.
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