tr.im Throws In the Towel
Nambu Networks , the company behind tr.im, pic.im, and the Nambu social application for Mac OS and iPhone has announced that tr.im will no longer be shortening URL’s for the public. According to a blog post , the reason behind the decision is Twitter’s decision to use bit.ly for their URL shortening, as well as the cost for servers and development while there are many other solutions for URL shortening. Nambu Networks will now focus its attention on Nambu for Mac OS and iPhone. tr.im did well for what it was, but, alas, it was not enough. We simply cannot find a way to justify continuing to work on it, or pay its network costs, which are not inconsequential. tr.im pushes (as I write this) a lot of redirects and URL creations per day, and this required significant development investment and server expansion to accommodate. Nambu Network’s doesn’t specifically say how many URL’s have been shortened, but looking at Twitter, tr.im was quite popular. The URL’s already shortened with tr.im will not be affected, but all tr.im links will continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009. tr.im has been added to the Deadpool . Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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