What I dislike most about people is that they are unable to make decisions, same goes for firms and the recent one to add to this is Nambu. What exactly is it up to? It first decided to shut down Tr.im, its URL shortener and then it has plans of selling its corpse for $80,000 and when I thought it’s been done that, tr.im has risen from the ashes like a phoenix. Excuse me, are we playing musical chair on decision making? The reason why its not shutting down the service is (as given) that there have been many requests by users to not do so. Great, pretty caring of them but I doubt it, call me a pessimist or a narrow minded person but I guess Nambu wants to keep the service running so that it may sell it for the price it has plans to sell it off for The other reason is Nambu doesn’t want to offload the site to anyone, fearing that the links will be hijacked. But again the truth is definitely that Nambu wants to keep the site running before actually fetching something more fruitful for it. Good luck with that, hope you don’t reverse this one.
I tend to agree, they are building up the reputation, in an aim to sell it. I ( I know of 2 others ) approached them about buying/taking over the service, with the express terms of honoring existing links.
For me a commercial decision that has a very close synergy with one of the URL shortening propositions that has come out of the kangareview dev team.
From their blog of desperation, “no one wants us” to receiving offers ( low offers ) why wouldn’t they keep it going and try to sell again later..
Not a great future for its users tho, if they don;t get a good offer, they will pull the plug again..
Am I bitter because they said no? Probably, but I also belive what ever happens, they have to figure a way that the urls are honored into the future.
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