Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

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.