he announcement this weekend that Tr.im will shut down has deeply worrying implications for URL shorteners: when these services go away, tens of thousands of links on the web simply stop working. Some sites will lose hundreds of inbound links, and the traffic that comes with them.
After a recent decision by Digg to simply redirect their shortURLs to their own site, there's a great deal of concern that other services will simply shut down and kill their links, or worse, redirect them to somewhere else entirely.
Read the whole story on Mashable
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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