bit.ly blog: Announcing bit.ly Pro
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 13:08
"The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. … Users and publishers benefit from the additional transparency that this private-label service provides. When you see a short URL like nyti.ms, you know the destination web site before clicking on the link. "
Wired.com: Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News
Monday, 10 August 2009, 14:59
"[Bit.ly is] going to mine those links to create a real-time news service that would work somewhat like Twitter trends, except that it would track the hottest links rather than the most-used words. The result would be a Digg-like news service comprised of links determined to be important by bit.ly’s analysis engine."
Techcrunch: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 15:05
"Bit.ly’s new Bit.ly Now service will show popular links at any given time, just like Digg (for now, Bit.ly sends the most popular link every hour to a twitter account). When Bit.ly Now launches, that link data will be combined with additional metadata about the URLs. In particular, they plan to extract important entities, people and topics from the stories in real time, allowing for a categorized approach to popular links. Bit.ly says they are talking to a number of third party services, including Reuter’s Open Calais, to help them do this."
