The Future of Local News: Local URL Shorteners?


bk.ly

Anything Brooklyn can be shortened with a bk.ly URL.

Why Bk.ly:

bk.ly is a crowd-sourced news site for Brooklyn, NY built upon the locally-branded url shortener bk.ly and locally-specific Twitter hashtag #bknews. Any tweet with either a bk.ly url or #bknews in it will show up in the tweet stream. bk,ly also tracks the most popular local links on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

What’s next?  nyc.ly la.ly, sf.ly  I don’t see why not.

Rush over to Libyan Spider Network to get a .ly domain.

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  • The shorter the URL, the easier it is too remember for potential visitors. It creates easier branding for websites as well has improves any AD's ability too attract visitors.
  • Not too sure about all of these TLD's. Too complex and hard for most internet goer's to use or remember.

    I think .com is going to be around for a long time.
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