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		<title>Twitter Authentication Upgrade and Native URL Shortening t.co</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter developments Speculated on earlier in the year have (mostly) arrived &#8211; say hello to OAuth and t.co. What is OAuth? OAuth is, as many of you have most likely already read from Twitters user announcement (sent to your inbox): &#8211; OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tr.im resurrected. Rules Still Firmly Apply in URL Shortening Caution.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reported Sunday that tr.im had announced it was terminating its URL shortening service which, would have the knock on effect of discontinuing all links shortened with the service starting early 2010. Nambu, the development firm behind tr.im today announced it will be retracting this decision, making its service available once more, and with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tr.im is Terminating Service. URL Shortening Cautions Personified.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a coincidental, but shockingly relevant turn of events, the URL shortening service tr.im as of Sunday August 9th 2009 has announced it will be terminating its URL shortening service, effective immediately. Regretfully, we here at Nambu have decided to shutdown tr.im, the first step in shutting down all of our products and services within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorten URLs with Caution. Here&#8217;s why.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of URL shortening Anyone familiar with Twitter will no doubt have used URL shortening. URL shortening is a technique used to, as the name clearly suggests, shorten the number of characters required for a given URL/link. With Twitter&#8217;s 140 character limit, this has become an invaluable technique for adding links to tweets. But [...]]]></description>
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