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But if that's all it's doing, where is its differentiation between it and the hundreds of other URL shortening services. You CAN run a social network cheaply,

by bmelton 17y ago

But if that's all it's doing, where is its differentiation between it and the hundreds of other URL shortening services. You CAN run a social network cheaply, but good luck competing with Facebook / MySpace / Orkut / Friendfeed / Livejournal / et al. Offering the service with the least amount of features can sometimes be a winning idea, but in this space, I'm not entirely sure that it's doable, considering the major feature works pretty similarly across all tr.im's competition.

jerf 17y ago
"But if that's all it's doing, where is its differentiation between it and the hundreds of other URL shortening services." Nothing. The design specification was just to "keep the site running", not to support a given feature set, for the purpose of not breaking the links, and nothing else. An extra buck or two from Google would be a bonus, but personally I wouldn't count on it.