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Twitter to launch its URL shortener, Amazon goes pro with Bit.Ly

Posted on April 15, 2010 by in Tech

URL shortener thing is really a big deal, thanks to the needs to the microblogging services, mobile phones and any kind of manual text-entry. It’s “a renaissance in the age of Twitter,” according to Danny Sullivan. URL shortening is a technique where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.

Twitter has just announced that it will be launching its own URL shortener, while Amazon has launched it’s own shortened URL, amzn.to, powered by bit.ly’s new Pro service.

By the way, how useful of the URL shortener for you? Which shortening service did you use frequently?

25 years of .com domain names

Posted on March 15, 2010 by in Tech

This is a brief history of the Internet: Initiated by the ARPANET in 1969; the protocol used on the Internet called TCP/IP was developed in 1974; Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge in 1983; a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name on March 15, 1985; and Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web in 1990. 

First 10 .com domains:

  • Symbolics.com – March 15, 1985
  • BBN.com – April 24, 1985
  • Think.com – May 24, 1985
  • MCC.com – July 11, 1985
  • DEC.com – Sept. 30, 1985
  • Northrop.com – Nov. 7, 1985
  • Serox.com – Jan. 9, 1986
  • SRI.com – Jan. 17, 1986
  • HP.com – March 3, 1986
  • Bellcore.com – March 5, 1986

[via SFGate]

URL typos is a big business now!

Posted on February 18, 2010 by in Statistics

If you frequently misspelled site addresses, it means you already sent cash to others –in this case, Google! A report says that Google supplied ads to almost 60 percent of these sites and earning some $497 million a year!

If these typo domains were treated as a single website, that site would be ranked by Alexa as the 10th most popular website in the world. It would be more popular, in unique daily visitors, than twitter.com, myspace.com, or amazon.com!

World’s most effective URL shortener: http://to./

Posted on February 2, 2010 by in Tech

World’s most effective URL shortener: http://to./

Yeah, it doesn’t look like a valid link but OMG TRY IT. Just visit http://to./ then type your long URL on the box provided and click on Shorten that URL; or like my colleague Harry Sufehmi suggested, just type http://to./[your long URL] on the browser’s bar!

Your call! :-)

A brief history of the Internet address: From killer domains to URL shorteners

Posted on December 15, 2009 by in Tech

JUST LIKE A TWITTER USER nicely puts it, here is the brief history of the Internet addresses: Round 1: “cool” domains, site forwarding (.nu, jump.to); Round 2: domain hacks (del.icio.us); and Round 3: URL shorteners (tinyURL, bit.ly, goo.gl, fb.me).

Bit.ly recently announced bit.ly Pro for publishers and bloggers that will be able to use their own short domain names; Google introduced goo.gl as a feature for Google Toolbar and Feedburner; and Facebook released fb.me for its mobile interface.