Comments on: When your URL shortener of choice goes Kaboom http://bloggasm.com/when-your-url-shortener-of-choice-goes-kaboom Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gary Scott http://bloggasm.com/when-your-url-shortener-of-choice-goes-kaboom/comment-page-1#comment-84563 Gary Scott Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:47:08 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=3681#comment-84563 lief = life lief = life

]]> By: Gary Scott http://bloggasm.com/when-your-url-shortener-of-choice-goes-kaboom/comment-page-1#comment-84562 Gary Scott Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:46:30 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=3681#comment-84562 A big question for all of us is whether and when we want to lay cement and make lief on the Internet more permanent? That's when convention will begin to control and power will concentrate into fewer and fewer hands. The transformation from virtual wilderness to virtual settled city will demand more predictability (paved streets, rules of the road) in everything from blogs to url shorteners. I could see Facebook disappearing a few years back, for example, not sure people would let that happen today. A big question for all of us is whether and when we want to lay cement and make lief on the Internet more permanent? That’s when convention will begin to control and power will concentrate into fewer and fewer hands. The transformation from virtual wilderness to virtual settled city will demand more predictability (paved streets, rules of the road) in everything from blogs to url shorteners. I could see Facebook disappearing a few years back, for example, not sure people would let that happen today.

]]> By: opendna http://bloggasm.com/when-your-url-shortener-of-choice-goes-kaboom/comment-page-1#comment-84554 opendna Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:07:40 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=3681#comment-84554 Why assume that most of the stuff presently on the net will still exist in 5 years? My experience over the last 10 years says that most of what's here now will be long gone. Some URL shorteners will fold, get hacked and purge their older databases. Most blogs will die and many will be deleted. Most websites will fold or be bought out. Google will change it's algorithms and whatever you used to find in the 10 ten will be unindexed: probably out there, but beyond the power of search. We often say once something is on the internet, it's there forever, but that's a silly lie. Something is only there for as long as someone protects it from digital entropy. Geocities got bought out by Yahoo, which is now closing down the service. That only means something if you remember how Myspace-big Geocities was at it's time. Why assume that most of the stuff presently on the net will still exist in 5 years? My experience over the last 10 years says that most of what’s here now will be long gone.

Some URL shorteners will fold, get hacked and purge their older databases. Most blogs will die and many will be deleted. Most websites will fold or be bought out. Google will change it’s algorithms and whatever you used to find in the 10 ten will be unindexed: probably out there, but beyond the power of search.

We often say once something is on the internet, it’s there forever, but that’s a silly lie. Something is only there for as long as someone protects it from digital entropy.

Geocities got bought out by Yahoo, which is now closing down the service. That only means something if you remember how Myspace-big Geocities was at it’s time.

]]> By: Drew http://bloggasm.com/when-your-url-shortener-of-choice-goes-kaboom/comment-page-1#comment-84553 Drew Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:58:17 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=3681#comment-84553 One solution is, of course, for larger sites like google and other Url shorteners to buy their hash-code databases (i.e. the records of what links to what). I'd be surprised it bit.ly doesn't make a bid for tr.im's data. Alternatively, google could have figured out what links to what automagically, and simply buy the tr.im domain and then offer it's own branded, ad supported linking. One solution is, of course, for larger sites like google and other Url shorteners to buy their hash-code databases (i.e. the records of what links to what). I’d be surprised it bit.ly doesn’t make a bid for tr.im’s data. Alternatively, google could have figured out what links to what automagically, and simply buy the tr.im domain and then offer it’s own branded, ad supported linking.

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