techcrunch.com - 4/3/2009
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DiggBar , the new shortURL and toolbar service from Digg, is certainly useful. I expect it to become my default short URL service on Twitter since it is so easy to create a short URL by simply adding Digg.com/ in front of any URL. It will redirect to a short Digg URL like digg.com/d1npNz , ...
blog.digg.com - 4/2/2009
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blog.digg.com —
Hey everyone - Starting today, we’ll begin rolling
out a new product we are calling the DiggBar....
Before we dive into the details, check out this short video overview: The DiggBar allows you to… Digg directly on the destination site: No ...
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DiggBar Launches Today!
blog.digg.com - 4/9/2009
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blog.digg.com —
Hi all, As most of you have noticed,
we launched the DiggBar last week. This cool little...
feature streamlines your Digg experience by making it much easier to discover and share stories. You can now catch up on comments, related stories and additional ...
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Google Juice & Page Views: Or How I Learned to Stop ...
3dogmedia.com - 4/10/2009
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3dogmedia.com —
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been
getting the urge to get back into blogging a...
bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit ...
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Google and Digg's Secret Backroom Deal
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5Words for April 3rd, 2009
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... Google, buy Twitter! Or don’t!
Rumor: Google’s buying Twitter. Maybe.
Digg launches short-url service.
Microsoft alert: PowerPoint is vulnerable.
Texas decides it hates Vista.
RIM has sold 50,000,000 BlackBerries.
EVO: Linux-based game console.
Motorola’s Evoke phone: surprisingly interesting.
Sweden cracks down on P2P.
Ritz Camera closes 300 stores.
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Are the DiggBar and URL shorteners bad for the web?
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... to publishers and web surfers — it was already pretty clear that the DiggBar was of enormous personal benefit to digg by actively sequestering more of the traffic surrounding the links in its ecosystem. This further sparked a debate surrounding the utility and potential concerns over ...
Related: Why URL
5 Reasons Why URL Shorteners Are Useful —
Mashable!
URL shorteners, such as bit.ly and tinyurl , are services that help take longer URLs (which can be over a hundred characters long) and transform them into manageable links that almost never exceed 20 characters. URL shorteners are not new - TinyURL has been around since 2002 . But their ...
URL Shortener Gets Long On Money —
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So what’s beyond social networking and microblogging? Some speculate it might URL-shortening, mostly because of sheer practicality. A new type of metrics URL-shortners offer also make them attractive topic, though nobody’s quite that sure just yet.
Dave Winer
Take Bit.ly , ...
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