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Cli.gs URL shortener closes up shop
Tr.im learned the same lesson when it closed down and then re-opened as an open source service, but there are still plenty of other URL shorteners out there in the same position as Cli.gs. Interestingly, Cli.gs is a member of 301Works, a collection of shortURL sites that teamed up with the goal of indexing all of their shortlinks, so that if a service went down, there would still be a way to see where its links used to go. Cli.gs is looking at the best way to use 301Works, but there's no plan yet.
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Jarimba said 6:11PM on 10-05-2009
Offtopic:
See this new aplication http://blaze-wins.sourceforge.net/ (portuguese project) and tell something ;)
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Hugo said 10:06PM on 10-05-2009
Awesome...
Let me start to say bye to my URLs...
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m0r1arty said 3:15AM on 10-06-2009
If we could include hyperlinks in Twitter, YouTube, Facebook et al. we wouldn't need to use shorteners. It's almost like going backwards instead for forwards contemplating their existence.
How many of those hacked Hotmail accounts that appeared yesterday do you think clicked blindly on a shortened URL?
You ever watched Twitter trends and the resulting misdirection given out by shysters looking to make an easy buck.
Were I an ad agency I'd get you 1000's of unique hits per day just by farming them from Twitter and using Cli.gs or something similar to hide the location from prying eyes. Better yet I'd spam your competitors for you and wait for the negative feedback loop to bring business your way.
It's archaic and a good example of non tech people establishing a status quo of ineptitude.
My, that was quite the rant there - best charge up the coffee cup.
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Scott said 3:20AM on 10-06-2009
If we could include hyperlinks in Twitter, YouTube, Facebook et al. we wouldn't need to use shorteners. It's almost like going backwards instead for forwards contemplating their existence.
How many of those hacked Hotmail accounts that appeared yesterday do you think clicked blindly on a shortened URL?
You ever watched Twitter trends and the resulting misdirection given out by shysters looking to make an easy buck.
Were I an ad agency I'd get you 1000's of unique hits per day just by farming them from Twitter and using Cli.gs or something similar to hide the location from prying eyes. Better yet I'd spam your competitors for you and wait for the negative feedback loop to bring business your way.
It's archaic and a good example of non tech people establishing a status quo of ineptitude.
My, that was quite the rant there - best charge up the coffee cup.
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Adam said 1:40PM on 10-12-2009
I think Cli.gs' demise can be directly attributed to the phenomenal growth of http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ It's the only URL shortener I use, and I'm a pretty big Twitter user. Thirty-six followers; that's power.
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