BLU.CC new URL Shortening Service
I posted a blog recently about URL alternatives to Bit.ly that you can refer to here.
Craigslist is constantly changing the rules and making it harder and harder to use hyperlinked URL shorteners. Backpage is a bit more lenient and as a matter of fact, as of Sept 15, 2011, I found the latest URL shortener that’s sticking. It’s called Blu.cc and it’s currently in Beta. Which means of course, it may go bust at any time in the next 6 months or so.
Case in point, in my last update earlier this year, kl.am was working for Craigslist and since has gone bust sometime in January. Their page takes homage to Douglas Adams with the ‘so long and thanks for all the fish’ line.
Blu.cc markets themselves with the tagline “Small links for tweeting” as they try to break into the popular and competitive twitter realm.
PS: is.gd is still valid but I haven’t been able to use them on Craigslist for a while.