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.
oh yeah- like the senator who tweeted his secret military location at a base in Iraq to his group. Yes- great military and political applications.
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….
sticks in mud indeed. twitter has had many productive and important documented uses in the military, emergency services, political campaigns, and big & small businesses.
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.
So just because you like it why does that make the rest of us sticks in the mud? It works for you- congratulations. Big deal.
ouch dittoburg! Why do you think I am a broker? I never have, and doubt I ever will be a real estate broker.
I am not going to try and explain the benefits of twitter to everyone. I did that last week ion the flea tweets thread. Most of the people on this comment thread are just being sticks in the mud. I will say, that twitter has become very beneficial to me professionally. I recommend giving it a try. It is all about who you follow. It took me a while to figure out how to make it work for me, but now that I have I really like it.
Hey, Snarky, come over to the OT and tell us how you liked the High Line on Friday.
> using technology to maintain the idea of relationships
Exactly. Facebook is a great way to keep up with people I kinda sorta want to keep up with. But it is also good for tossing comments back and forth with other people with whom I have more tangible relationships. I’m still not on the tweetwagon yet.
I’m not a big tweeter (?), but I do understand the benefits and the appeal. I’ve always enjoyed reading people’s tweets about the flea – it’s like an experiential and verbal snapshot that approximates art precisely because of the imposed brevity. I agree that it’s scary when misinformation is spread that way, but so far it seems to correct itself because of the sheer numbers of people filtering any given tweet. I like this added local layer too because it brings it closer to an experience of our varied and diverse neighborhoods. We can grumble and we can choose not to partake, but I don’t view it as a danger. Thanks, brownstoner for taking a crack at it. Maybe I’ll get a twitter account…
well King of the Burg is happy about it and almost eveyone else thinks its tosh. I assume that MrB must be happy he’s reaching his target demographic – Williamsburg brokers