Filed under: Utilities, Web services
Bit.ly Pro enters open beta — get a free, custom URL shortener!
All you have to do is sign up for a Bit.ly account and find a way to register the domain you want to use for your link shortener. Point your domain to the IP address Bit.ly gives you, and bada-bing-bada-boom, Bit.ly does the rest. You also get all of the analytics services you've come to expect from Bit.ly's non-pro package. The cutoff for a free URL shortener is 10,000 URLs shortened per day. If you're expecting more traffic than that, you'll have to contact Bit.ly for a commercial account.
[via The Next Web]


The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
av8tors32 said 3:22PM on 2-07-2010
will goo.gl chase bit.ly into this market?
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flip79 said 4:40PM on 2-07-2010
Here's a free URL shortener, from Italy, that allows also custom shortened URLs, no signup required:
http://rurl.it
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iambradk said 6:09PM on 2-07-2010
Registration is down unfortunately. I have www.fl.gs and have been waiting to use it.
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Jon Mulholland said 7:11PM on 2-07-2010
Seem to have got it working with http://jonmul.com already. Very cool bit.ly, very cool.
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Jon Mulholland said 7:08PM on 2-07-2010
...and here it is in action http://jonmul.com/7RIPU1
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Timo Reitnauer said 8:34PM on 2-07-2010
In addition to offering 2-letter domain registration similar to is.gd or tr.im we also help users with the setup for bit.ly Pro at iWantMyName. You can have your short domain up and running within minutes: http://iwantmyname.com/services
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