BK.LY Launches
We’ve just launched a new website this morning called bk.ly that is designed to serve two purposes: 1) As URL shorteners become a ubiquitous part of the Internet experience, it makes sense to have some kind of local identity to the shortened web addresses, especially in the case of Brooklyn where local pride runs thick;…
We’ve just launched a new website this morning called bk.ly that is designed to serve two purposes: 1) As URL shorteners become a ubiquitous part of the Internet experience, it makes sense to have some kind of local identity to the shortened web addresses, especially in the case of Brooklyn where local pride runs thick; 2) Twitter also provides a powerful way to collect and rank local news. The way site works is pretty simple: If you tweet a link that’s been shortened using the bk.ly URL shortener, it’ll automatically show up in the site’s Tweet stream; likewise, if you append any Tweet with the hashtag #bknews, it will also show up in the stream. The latter will hopefully be used widely for mobile Tweets like “three-car accident at Fulton and South Oxford #bknews”. We’ve also got a Most Popular widget on the site to track which links have been Tweeted the most. (This will soon be available for any bloggers to embed on their own sites.) Within the next couple of weeks, you’ll be able to log into the site with your Twitter username and Tweet directly from bk.ly while tracking the click-through performance of your links. It’s very much an experiment so we look forward to specific suggestions to make it more useful and user-friendly.
alright bxgrl. you can have this thread all to yourself. I wasn’t trying to be condescending, but you took it that way and wanted to start a sparing match. I will step out of this discussion. the sandbox is all yours….although you are being kind of a stick in the mud.
Ah- yet another ineffectual psychological analysis from goldie. You certainly have a shallow concept of what either I or rob think- but that’s to be expected form twitterphiles. Short attention spans. Not much depth. To be clear- I said I didn’t like twitter- seems others don’t also. No one except you and king ( who love twitter) made it into character indictments. Interesting.
Not an attack- just a comment from an overly condescending commenter who seems to think he’s smarter than everyone else. Perhaps you should stop kissing your own butt.
bxgrl and rob: not really forest for the trees people are ya?
I think you are missing my point. I am not calling anyone stupid, and you don’t really need to be computer savvy to use twitter. I just think people are missing its real potential.
I think you have been commenting on this website too long. You seem to view any disagreement as an attack. you should stop being such a stick in the mud.
king- I understand twitter- I just don’t choose to use it. It’s a choice, just like you choose to use it. FYI- quite a few of the posters who don’t like twitter are quite computer savvy.
“Technology has become just another addiction. Instead of walking aorund with a cigarette, people walk around with their cells, talking or texting. I’m with bxgrl and bodhi….”
so blogging does not count, BH76???
The general tone of the previous comments seemed to be a dislike of twitter due to what appears to be a lack of understanding of it. That is what I meant by stick in the mud.
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it aint just about finding out real-time what ashley olsen purged in the ladies room or your buddy failing again to score with someone at the bar.
uhh… it was mary kate olson who had the eating disorder, not ashley olson. get your facts straight before you choose to insult people.
*rob*