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Securing Shortened URLs

URL-shortening service Tr.im recently announced it would be shutting down its services, and that all URLs shortened via its service would cease to redirect by the end of the year. Although it later reversed its decision to brickify these links, the announcement sent red flags up throughout the world of social media: what [...]

Reuters Deals Out-of-Control AP a Smackdown

By charging $12.50 for each snippet taken from its site, the AP really is walking down the path to extinction. Thomson Reuters nails it perfectly in its recent blog post:

Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they [...]