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It didn't take long for solutions to be proposed after the announcement of the URL shortening service Tr.im's shutdown. Bit.ly, the reason why it was closing in the first place, has approached Nambu Networks, Tr.im's parent company, inviting it to join the 301works project, which aims to be an open archive for shortened URLs. Not surprisingly, though perhaps not the best choice for Tr.im's users, the company rejected the offer saying that it planned to sell the service for a rumored $80,000 to $100,000. Tr.im announced that it would be closing after failing to make any headway in the crowded and â€" it claims â€" unfair market. The main reason behind the closure was Twitter's preference for Bit.ly, a competing service that is now used as the default URL shortener for the microblogging platform, giving it a â€" some say â€" unfair advantage and market dominance, with an almost 80 percent share. The closure won't come until the end of the year but there were many worried ab!
out what would happen to all of the links after that. Bit.ly, in fact, came up with a solution, asking them to join the 301works project, which aims to be a repository of shortened links created for just this type of occurrences. “Back in April, we reached out to several of the leading URL shortening services to su...
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