As the URL burns: The short-link soap opera
Found on CNet News on Monday, 17 August 2009
On August 17, Woodward put a fresh coat on the prior week's drama with a new gambit: He said he was giving the service to the community.
In the bitter post announcing this plan, he continued to claim that due to the fact that Twitter made Bit.ly the default URL shortener for the service, a product like Tr.im has no real chance for success.
Oh the drama. The biggest problem of the world seems to be a shortening service, something that's not needed at all. It just adds another point of failure; and given the quick come-and-go nature of recent services, your links may suddenly be all dead. Instead of pushing all your visitors through a single service, link directly, just like you did before. But of course those who use Twitter will moan, thanks to that ridiculous limit on postings.