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Google’s FeedBurner Social Isn’t Quite Ready. Back to TwitterFeed – for Now.

Google’s FeedBurner Social Isn’t Quite Ready. Back to TwitterFeed – for Now.

By Zoli Erdos on December 14, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged bit.ly, competition, cotweet, Entrepreneurship, facebook, feedburner, google, hootsuite, social media, startups, twitter, twitterfeed, url shortening | 6 Responses

Startup Bloodbath in Social Media?

Startup Bloodbath in Social Media?

By Zoli Erdos on December 14, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged bit.ly, competition, cotweet, Entrepreneurship, facebook, feedburner, google, hootsuite, social media, startups, twitter, twitterfeed, url shortening | 4 Responses

Twitter Should Stop Doing A Microsoft

Twitter Should Stop Doing A Microsoft

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 11, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged bit.ly, saas, social networks, tr.im, twitter

The Tragedy Of URL Shortners And Why Twitter Should Buy Bit.ly

The Tragedy Of URL Shortners And Why Twitter Should Buy Bit.ly

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 9, 2009

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, […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged bit.ly, saas, tr.im, twitter, URL shortners | 5 Responses

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