First test for 301works as Cli.gs goes off line
The much hyped URL Shortening archiving service 301works will have their first big test soon. As the shortening service Cli.gs goes off line (assuming it’s not another Tr.im). Their blog has just announced that “On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics”.
The service (301works) is supposed to archive the links of URL shortening services in order to prevent a whole host of links going down when (as if) as service shuts up shop, and was started jointly by a group of URL shortners in order to give a degree of consumer confidence in their services.
However the organisations web site still has “Coming Soon” image on its web site, and some in the industry are worried that it may not be ready in time to prevent Cli.gs links vanishing.
All this has me thinking, that will I currently use bit.ly for everything, I may install a service like phul that runs on my servers and so will be running for as long as I am, if you know of any PHP, Python or Ruby scripts that do the job, let me know in the comments section.