All entries tagged: Daring Fireball
Brief thoughts on brief lifespans of brief URLs: what news sites can do
[UPDATE, 3:35 p.m.: As this post went up, tr.im announced that it's back in business. But the thoughts below still apply.]
I had the very-2009 experience on Sunday night of losing my URL shortener to a lack of business model. Tr.im, the Nambu Network’s intuitively named and competitively concise truncator of web addresses, announced that it [...]
Yet another reminder that users are in charge: the DiggBar backlash
If you needed any further proof that this is an age driven by users much more than publishers, look no further than what’s happening right now with Digg.com, a site you probably think of as a stand-in for all that is user-generated, unedited and anarchic.
Well, it turns out, to their users, that the plucky startup [...]
