<?xml encoding="ISO-8859-1" version="1.0"?>
<!-- OPML generated by OPML Editor v10.1a8 on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:26:58 GMT -->
<opml version="2.0">
	<head>
		<title>scripting.com</title>
		<dateCreated>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:11:13 GMT</dateCreated>
		<dateModified>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:26:58 GMT</dateModified>
		<ownerName>Dave Winer (Larry King)</ownerName>
		<ownerId>http://www.scripting.com/</ownerId>
		<expansionState>1, 7, 11</expansionState>
		<vertScrollState>2</vertScrollState>
		<windowTop>174</windowTop>
		<windowLeft>542</windowLeft>
		<windowBottom>534</windowBottom>
		<windowRight>1280</windowRight>
		</head>
	<body>
		<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:11:26 GMT" text="Bit.ly Pro">
			<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:11:30 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/05/doNot.gif&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named doNot.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/8704067944&quot;&gt;Saw a link&lt;/a&gt; this evening in Danny Sullivan's feed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitly.pro/&quot;&gt;Bit.ly Pro&lt;/a&gt;. Not sure when this was announced, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/news?q=bitly.pro&quot;&gt;no references&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/news/search?q=bitly+pro&quot;&gt;product&lt;/a&gt; in Google News. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:11:49 GMT" text="Read over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitly.pro/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. This is basically the service I wanted to create with Bit.ly when we started it up in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/08/bitlyLaunchesToday.html&quot;&gt;summer of 2008&lt;/a&gt;. But it's &lt;i&gt;apparently&lt;/i&gt; missing one key component, the freedom to switch to a different service. Once you've chosen to map a domain to bit.ly, if you map it to another service, all the links you created with bit.ly break. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:12:54 GMT" text="There is a way for them to provide the ability to switch, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/25/howtofixurlshortenersparti.html&quot;&gt;Joe Moreno&lt;/a&gt; at Adjix did it. Bit.ly could echo all your shortened URLs to an Amazon S3 bucket that you control (and pay for, btw). If you decide to switch, just change your CNAME to point to Amazon. Or give it to a competitive service that you like better. This protects your choice, and protects all of us if Bit.ly should fail."></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:17:33 GMT" text="8/19:09: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/19/howtofixurlshorteners.html&quot;&gt;How to Fix URL Shorteners&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:15:28 GMT" text="Now I could be missing something, I hope I am. But I'd get the answer to the question before I bet my future on any URL-shortening service."></outline>
			</outline>
		</body>
	</opml>
