List of 74 URL Shortening Sites

Re:List of 74 URL Shortening Sites by joshwprinceton on Saturday April 04, 2009 @06:02PM (#546705)

lol - i still don't get how bit.ly is valued so high, esp. in light of this.

thanks for the links!

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Re:List of 74 URL Shortening Sites by nir on Saturday April 04, 2009 @06:48PM (#546750)

No problem.

(BTW I'm not sure bit.ly was a bad investment. Common sense might say so, but that has little to do with which Web companies get bought and for how much. If I was a VC I'd put some chips on a URL shortener, and bit.ly is one of the better (and hyped) ones right now)

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Re:List of 74 URL Shortening Sites by sachinag on Saturday April 04, 2009 @06:53PM (#546755)

bit.ly's really interesting in that it comes out Betaworks - since it's so closely tied to Twitter, and so many of Betaworks' investments are built on Twitter (Summize, StockTwits, Tweetdeck), they can help push adoption. It's a nice little keiretsu of related companies.

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Re:List of 74 URL Shortening Sites by nir on Saturday April 04, 2009 @07:04PM (#546770)

Yeah, I suppose it would make sense for Twitter to provide URL shortening themselves, and they'd probably buy someone like bit.ly for this - so betting $2m on it makes some sense (as much as anything makes sense in this area).

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Re:List of 74 URL Shortening Sites by joshwprinceton on Saturday April 04, 2009 @07:45PM (#546808)

yeah, i see the twitter connection - definitely a good tech synergy there, but would it cost them that much to do it in-house?

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