Google’s FeedBurner Social Isn’t Quite Ready. Back to TwitterFeed – for Now.
Why bother with an intermediary when we can now have FeedBurner send our blog post to Twitter directly? – I wrote in Startup Bloodbath in Social Media and I meant it. But for now, we’re switching back to TwitterFeed. The new Feedburner service that pushes blog posts to Twitter directly isn’t quite ready. Let’s just [...]
Startup Bloodbath in Social Media?
Google announced their own URL shortener. Great. But some startups may be panicking. The TechCrunch title says it all: Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd: Facebook And Google Get Into The Short URL Game. Of course bit.ly is not the only possible casualty, but they are the dominant one in the URL shortening space – or at [...]
Twitter Should Stop Doing A Microsoft
In my premature obituary of Tr.im, I took a position where I had suggested that Twitter should buy bit.ly to improve the trust people keep on URL-shortening services. Bit.ly is another URL shortening service which has 3 million unique monthly visitors and with a $2 M Series A funding. Recently, Twitter ditched tinyURL.com and selected [...]
The Tragedy Of URL Shortners And Why Twitter Should Buy Bit.ly
Today, Nambu, the company behind tr.im URL shortening service, announced that they are shutting down tr.im because it is not economically feasible for them. tr.im did well for what it was, but, alas, it was not enough. We simply cannot find a way to justify continuing to work on it, or pay its network costs, [...]
