Time for a quick update. Days from the public launch of bit.ly, SwitchAbit had the distinct privilege of being on lifehacker.com (thank you!).
The amount of feedback has been mind boggling. Every comment is important and we try very hard to reply in a timely manner. But the truth is, it will take a few days to work our way through. I apologize for the delay.
In the meantime, please check out the great articles on http://lifehacker.com.
Jay
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Tagged: bit.ly, switchAbit
We have suspended posting of switchAbit and twittergram while we investigate problems surrounding requests to SimpleDB.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Jay
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http://bit.ly/ is a URL-shortener with lots of new stuff designed for an app developer who needs everything and more! 
1. History — we remember the last 15 shortened URLs you’ve created. They’re displayed on the home page next time you go back. Cookie-based.
2. Click/Referrer tracking — Every time someone clicks on a short URL we add 1 to the count of clicks for that page and for the referring page.
3. There’s a simple API for creating short URLs from your web apps.
4. We automatically create three thumbnail images for each page you link through bit.ly, small, medium and large size. You can use these in presenting choices to your users.
5. We automatically mirror each page, never know when you might need a backup.
6. Most important for professional applications, you can access all the data about each page through a simple XML or JSON interface. Example.
7. All the standard features you expect from serious url-shorteners.
And it’s just the beginning, we’re tracking lots more data so that as more URLs are shortened by bit.ly we’ll be able to turn on more features.
Categories: bit.ly · url shorteners · webapps
Twitabit now includes replies in the queued posts. This means that you can keep the conversation thread going even if Twitter is down. Dig that.
Jay
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Tagged: twitabit, twitter
