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I don't think anyone really believed that something you can hack together in twenty minutes, where your business plan is completely based on "for as long as Twi

I don't think anyone really believed that something you can hack together in twenty minutes, where your business plan is completely based on "for as long as Twitter doesn't do one", really counts as a "space". Anyone who invested in it deserved to get burned. bit.ly were working on partnerships with publishers as their means of getting some monetization, but that's all I've really seen. I'd prefer the Google one to the others, because at least I have some guarantee that the Google one won't go away.

cadr 16y ago
Like Wave didn't go away?
- iheartmemcache 16y ago
  To be fair, Wave is still functional and Google announced intentions of releasing "Wave in a Box" (1). And they have explicitly said they'll provide a method to export existing data. Either way, their decommissioning of Wave is a lot more responsible than, say, what Xmarks is doing. I trust Google a lot more than a fly-by-night startup to gracefully shutdown their services. (1) http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-n...
trezor 16y ago
where your business plan is completely based on "for as long as Twitter doesn't do one" From what I could tell from the last emails sent from twitter, they are doing one. I wrote a very short blog-post on that since I was surprised nobody else seemed to notice: http://jostein.kjonigsen.net/articles/166/Twitter_finally_kills_URL_shortening__almost_.aspx http://jostein.kjonigsen.net/articles/166/Twitter_finally_ki...