I feel like throwing a boot showering Nambu Networks with flowers and salute its confusion on what it has to do with Tr.im. Seriously, there is a limit to being indecisive and they are setting new standards on that as they plan to make the URL shortening service Open Sourced. Wait, wait, weren’t they shutting it down? Oh, sorry, they were trying to sell it, no not selling it and keeping it running… what nonsense! Well at least they have decided (hopefully) they will make it open source which is a pretty good idea and something they should have done earlier. Their decision to shut it down all because Bit.ly was Twitter’s default URL shortener sounded pretty lame and damaged their credibility to accept the challenge. I mean there are many others out there already and doing much worse than Tr.im. Glad they got this in their head, I just hope they are done with this and stick to this decision.
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We reported the shutting down of Tr.im the URL shortening service form Nambu, primarily because Twitter had chosen Bit.ly as its default URL shortener. However Bit.ly was kind enough to suggest a few ways to make sure that all links shortened by tr.im don’t become useless after 31’st December. Those had been put down, why? Well Nambu wants to make some cash off the corpse, and their demand lies between $80,000 and $100,000. Why would someone pay them that amount of cash? To save all those links? I guess there must be a bigger reason behind it, one that we are still trying to figure out. There are some really enthusiastic firms/people interested in buying the service for an unsaid price. Lets see who is lucky enough, for Nambu itself has no plans of selling it for any price lower than $80,000.
I thought that I would never hear about a URL shortening service calling it quits, but that changes. Nambu Networks has announced that it will put tr.im in the coffin. The blog post states that the service has been shut down due to the reason that Twitter has chosen bit.ly as its default URL shortner. That sounds pretty justified, a bit sad though as tr.im was pretty popular on Twitter. However Nambu states that it could not meet the growing cost of maintaining and running the networks it required for the redirects and URL creation each day (you can guess how much load could this mean). The decision is effective immediately, however all the links that have been shortened so far will continue to function till December 31, 2009.
