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With delicious being totally dead, I think it is worth having at a new bookmarking service (haven't checked this yet myself).
Delicious isn't completely dead it's owned by the guys who started YouTube and turned into something of a pinterest clone (which is kind of where bookmarking has gone)
1.) Screw link shorteners. When they go bankrupt, which they do frequently, they leave behind millions of completely useless URLs. 2.) Antagonizing your userbase seems like an unwise move in a market where changing providers is so trivially easy. (What's the difference between a bit.ly link and a t.co one?)
Do elaborate on the frequently part.
Defunct URL shorteners:
tr.im
xs.md
4url.cc
litturl.com
chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
gonext.org - not resolving
ix.it - Not resolving
jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked
kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"
kurl.us - Parked.
miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."
minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404
muhlink.com - Not resolving
myurl.us - cpanel frontend
1link.in - Website dead
canurl.com - Website dead
dwarfurl.com - Website dead/Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041
easyuri.com - Website dead/Appears hex incremental with last digit random/checksum: http://easyuri.com/1339f , http://easyuri.com/133a3
go2cut.com - Website dead
lnkurl.com - Website dead
minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead
memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.
nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters
digg.com - discontinued - [2]
u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 1st of october 2010 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/)> "It's the response from the vocal minority who are quick to complain about any change." Who else will complain about bad changes, if not the "vocal minority"? When was the last time somebody appealed to the alleged wisdom of the "silent majority" to support anything worth supporting? Nixon? Falwell? Internet services rely greatly on word of mouth. You need vocal advocates to spread the word. If you alienate your mo…
> When was the last time somebody appealed to the alleged wisdom of the "silent majority" to support anything worth supporting? Nixon? Falwell? Everyone claims that the silent majority supports their position. See Occupy for a recent example. Suggesting that everyone is wrong seems a bit strong.
IIRC the Occupy movement didn't argue that the 99% is right because it's the 99%. Rather, the argument was that there are serious socioeconomic problems that affect as much as 99% of the population. People also tried really hard to mobilize as many ordinary citizens as possible so that the majority would no longer be silent. Contrast that with the usual conservative bullshit about how hard-working citizens are too busy with their own productive lives to participate in protests, which implies that silence is a virtue.
It used to be that I'd click on the chrome extension icon and immediately get a link along with the page title that I could post straight to twitter or facebook. The j.mp/bit.ly homepage was bookmarked in my bookmarks bar and showed me everything I cared about in one place (the link, with another link to copy it, how many clicks on my link, and how many total clicks to that particular article).
I imagine they went "hang on, we're making life waaaay too easy for them" and proceeded to throw up the vomit that is the current homepage. Now to get the shortened link from the extension, I have to click save and them do some other nonsense to retrieve my link.
I'm the worst kind of angry about this ... angry and powerless, because bit.ly is such a part of my online life now (personally and a bunch of apps that I've written use it) that I simply can't do without it ... there's no other decent alternatives, plus I have this weird thing where I think its kind of rude to complain about a free service.
So apart from this, I'm just going to shut up and hope something better comes along so I can jump ship. It happened with delicious (pinboard), so hopefully, it won't be long.
How disrespectful.
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Do elaborate on the frequently part.
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Urlteam Defunct URL shorteners: tr.im xs.md 4url.cc litturl.com chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving gonext.org - not resolving ix.it - Not resolving jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown" kurl.us - Parked. miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen...…