OOPS: This article originally stated that Brooklyn’s Makerbot Brooklyn’s Makerbot won bit.ly’s second API contest.
Turns out hacker and entrepreneur Jeff Miller won for building Bitly News, which tracks trending stories on the link shortner.
His prize? A Makerbot. You can understand our confusion.
Today’s topbit.ly stories include a list of “crazy Read More
Bit.ly just raised $10 million in series B funds. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick anounced the round in a blog post, where he also dropped some data about the company’s growth.
Until April of this year bit.ly was the default link shortener for Twitter. When that honeymoon ended, many speculated that bit.ly’s growth would suffer. Read More
The shutdown of “sex positive” url shortner vb.ly by the Libyan government has created a stir today, with many wondering what this might mean for more established sites like Bit.ly, who’s domain also fall under the country’s Sharia law.
“This is a tempest in a teapot,” says John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks, which oversees Read More
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