Comments on: Is a Shorter Web Address Worth Big Money? bit.ly Raises $2 Million

By: Quora

Quora — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:42:17 +0000

Is there a revenue model for link shorteners?…

Peter Kafka reported: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090330/is-a-shorter-web-address-worth-big-money-bitly-raises-2m/…

By: The New York Times Gets a Bite of Bit.ly | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:53:13 +0000

[...] Here’s a quick follow up to News.Me, the sort-of mysterious social news project that the New York Times (NYT) is developing alongside Betaworks. An interesting deal point, really: As part of the partnership between the two companies, the Times has taken an equity stake in Bit.ly, the URL-shortening service that Betaworks built up and spun out last year. [...]

By: Video Interview: John Borthwick, CEO of Twitter-Oriented Investor Betaworks | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:06:09 +0000

[...] prominent Betaworks projects are Twitter plays as well. Twitter uses Bit.ly, the URL shortener Betaworks built and then spun off. And Betaworks funded TweetDeck, the most [...]

By: jaysargos

jaysargos — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:30:38 +0000

Its really hard to believe that much money is attached to such a short URL…It shows that for every niche there are deep pockets somewhere..and investors are always ready and waiting for dotcom opportunities!

By: A Little Bit.ly Sharia? Tech Business Builds on Libya Domain « Creeping Sharia « Simon Studio Analysis

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:21:38 +0000

[...] URL shortening service Bit.ly just secured $2 million in financing from investors including O’Reilly’s AlphaTech Ventures. Though URL shorteners have been around [...]

By: An Oversized Ruckus About Tiny Web Addresses: Bit.ly’s Bigfoot Offer to the Rest of the Business [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:21:54 +0000

[...] because if there is any business in URL-shortening at all, it’s going to be a scale business that ends up in the hands of a [...]

By: An Oversized Ruckus About Tiny Web Addresses: Bit.ly’s Bigfoot Offer to the Rest of the Business | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:31:58 +0000

[...] because if there is any business in URL-shortening at all, it’s going to be a scale business that ends up in the hands of a [...]

By: How to view stats of Bit.ly links? - The Random Thoughts of Tabish Hasan

How to view stats of Bit.ly links? - The Random Thoughts of Tabish Hasan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:25:01 +0000

[...] to this article: Bit.ly distinguishes itself by tracking all the clicks and streams that come through the service [...]

By: Twitter App Investors Still Writing Checks: StockTwits Raises a Round | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:33:38 +0000

[...] yet another bet that investor Howard Lindzon has made in Twitter: He’s also put money into bit.ly, a Twitter-centric url-shortner, and Tweetdeck, a useful Twitter client, alongside incubator Betaworks, which in turn invested in [...]

By: tandemrandom.com » Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain

tandemrandom.com » Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:41:19 +0000

[...] URL shortening service Bit.ly just secured $2 million in financing from investors including O’Reilly’s AlphaTech Ventures. Though URL shorteners have been [...]

By: Trends: URL Shortening uguale anche business? - Stalkk.ed

Trends: URL Shortening uguale anche business? - Stalkk.ed — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:24:44 +0000

[...] Per quanto riguarda invece il business realizzabile con tali servizi, esso a che fare principalmente con il controllo sui links del Web che i medesimi servizi di fatto acquisiscono, e con la capacità quindi di fornire dati in tempo reale riguardanti l’audience dei contenuti web nei social media. Bit.ly, per inciso, conta circa 60 milioni di links clickati alla settimana, e sui dati analitici forniti a publishers su questa base sta tentando di costruire un business redditizio, tanto che recentemente è stata finanziata per 2 milioni di dollari da alcuni venture capitalists con a …. [...]

By: Erik Nude » Blog Archive » Kan Twitter tjene penger?

Erik Nude » Blog Archive » Kan Twitter tjene penger? — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:31:14 +0000

[...] Googles suksess har inspirert en hel rekke nye webselskaper som ønsker å tjene penger på gratistjenester. Nylig sa for eksempel gründerne av Bit.ly at ”omsetning kommer senere, fra noe annet, når vi finner ut av hva der er”. [...]

By: The Ashes » Blog Archive » BurnURL Unveils ShareBar 2 With Moods, E-mail and Social Sharing

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:46:28 +0000

[...] world of URL shorteners is being hotly debated this week, and seeing tremendous change, with bit.ly making news by raising a new round of venture funding, and the release of DiggBar. In this wake, Danny Sullivan [...]

By: .LY of course! » Bit.ly et al

.LY of course! » Bit.ly et al — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:53:19 +0000

[...] Source: All Things Digital [...]

By: Weekend Update, 4.04.09 | Oliver J. Chiang | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:16:26 +0000

[...] Disney (DIS) seems to be playing the field. Other gems of the week were URL-shrinking Web service bit.ly’s raising of $2 million and media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Kindle [...]