Poynter Online: Tr.im’s shutdown – a warning about free services online
August 12th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
Damon Kiesow comments on how the end of URL shortener tr.im, which announced on Sunday that it would discontinue its service, may come as a ‘wake-up call’ to bloggers and news organisations relying on free services to drive traffic to their websites.
Tr.im has since been resurrected – but the insecure future of such tools remains.
