December 2008
13 posts
Some bit.ly Updates
We just released a few new features: You can now get an RSS feed of your bit.ly history (to import to Facebook or Friend Feed, for example), at http://[your bitly username].bit.ly/recent.rss.xml If you want to make your bit.ly history private, you can do so by editing your privacy settings at: http://bit.ly/account We had some requests for a way to reset API keys, so if you have given your API key...
Publishers Clearing House Tracks Campaigns With...
Publishers Clearing House has been running contests on Twitter, using Twittertise to publish and bit.ly to track their campaigns: http://twitter.com/pchwinningways
via NY Times: http://bit.ly/1ngp
TwitterGadget for iGoogle + bit.ly
TwitterGadget for iGoogle just added a cool way to create bit.ly links by right clicking a long URL in the body of your tweet.
Video demo: http://www.twittergadget.com/flash/shorten.htm
Check out the gadget at:
http://bit.ly/twitterGadget
Looking for bit.ly Users in NYC
We’re looking for people who actively use bit.ly to participate in some research. We’d like to talk to people who use bit.ly to shorten and share URLs - using Twitter, email, IM, or whatever you use it for. This is a great chance to share with us what you’re doing and let us know how we can make things better.
If you’re in New York City and have time in the next couple of...
bit.ly Google Gadget Anywhere
I played with the bit.ly URL Shortener Google Gadget a little bit more and discovered you can add it to your Google IG http://bit.ly/bitlyIgoogleGadget or to any web page http://bit.ly/bitlyGadgetAnywhere Add this wherever you are most in need of short URLs!