Tr.im cuts air supply, says no money in tiny Web 2.0 pot

Tr.im has shutdown its operations after failing to make money from, or find a buyer for, its URL shortening service. The company's website carries a glum message confirming that the service is in the process of being discontinued because Tr.im, which was popular among some Twitter users, couldn't raise money from the venture …

[Ian Ferguson]

Shame

They provided a pretty good service, with statistics and wotnot; but all these services are pretty much the same.

I'm not sure why Twitter themselves prefer bit.ly - do they have a stake?

I used tr.im because it's a whole letter shorter than bit.ly.

So... how long until the statement on their homepage appears on the Twitter homepage verbatim, except that 'tr.im' is replaced with 'Twitter'....

[Ian Rogers]

Shock Horror

Webtards won't pay for free service!

Who'da thunk it...

[Andrew Moore]

Oh dear...

"How can we monetize something that has already been given away for free for years!!!"

[Charlie Clark]

It's the end of the world

But the media persists in bombarding with hippie myths like climate change! Thank god El Reg still manages to cover important issues!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

An example of Web 2.0 stupidity

Especially when you consider TinyURL.com is run by one guy in Minnesota off donations. Hard to compete against that! Especially given that huge 6 Euro per month hosting bill from RedHosting.

[IR]

Odd

Doesn't seem too hard to jam some adverts on a redirect page. Like the Reg does.

[TeeCee]

Re: Odd

Oh dear, you mentioned adverts. I'll just drop the appropriate response:

Yadda yadda adblock yadda noscript waffle waffle waffle firefox bullshit bullshit bollocks bollocks bollocks.

<Anti MS / Google / Apple / world of leather rant>

There. That's better.

[Georgees]

If he seriously doesn't have a seller...

I'd buy it for maybe £10K.

[Mark Rendle]

Web 2.0 Gnomes

1. Build a website that re-directs to other websites without displaying any content of its own.

2. ???

3. PROFIT!

[Steven Burn]

Woops ....

I run a URL shortening service myself (no linky as I don't want to do the self advertising thingymabob), and am amazed that people still think you can make money from these.

URL shorteners have never been a viable business model, indeed, I run my own as a convenience to myself and others, and have never even contemplated trying to make money from it.

Anywho, I'm rambling.