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    tr.im URLs | tr.im to be Community-Owned
    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2009 | tr.im, twitter, social
    tr.im URLs | tr.im to be Community-Owned

    Trim's announcment they are releasing tr.im to the public domain - both the code AND the data!

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    Tr.im to Go Open Source, Community Owned
    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2009 | tr.im, url shorteners, open source
    Tr.im to Go Open Source, Community Owned

    tr.im is going open source - and is moving to a not-for-profit organization to operate the service!

    Quoted: Updated at 12:45 PM PST with a response from Bit.ly After weeks of controversy concerning a possible closure of the service, URL shortener Tr.im just announced that it's ...

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    tr.im your URLs
    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2009 | twitter, tr.im, URL Shortening
    tr.im your URLs

    Pretty amazing that one of the more popular URL shorteners is going out of business.

    Quoted: There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it -- and we just can't
    justify further development since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner.
    There is simply no point for us to continue operating tr.im, and pay for its upkeep.

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