{"id":277,"date":"2009-12-19T04:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2009\/12\/19\/bitly_offices_12-17-09\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T04:50:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T04:50:41","slug":"bitly_offices_12-17-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/bitly_offices_12-17-09.html","title":{"rendered":"bit.ly Offices 12-17-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a big week for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\">bit.ly<\/a> in the news.  Lots of buzz about <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/6nK3B6\">Google and Facebook coming out with their own URL shorteners<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/6nPJEW\">but they&#8217;re not down by a long shot<\/a>. Bit.ly Pro is really great and of course, I setup my own URL shortener, http:\/\/www.ds.ly, just for kicks (by the way, buying a domain from Libya was an interesting experience).  Also launched this week was <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/6UfisT\">bitly.tv<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/7vycLo\">bitly labs<\/a> project that provides a view into the most popular shared videos on the Net.<br \/>\nHere they are in their offices, which are next to <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/3aq5Ga\">betaworks<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/1.jpg\" height=225 width=300><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/2.jpg\" height=225 width=300><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/3.jpg\" height=225 width=300><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/4.jpg\" height=225 width=300><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/5.jpg\" height=225 width=300><br \/>\nIf you notice on the walls, there are some pretty cool paintings by local artists that we got from a gallery.  For some reason, I&#8217;m a fan of this one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"\/images\/bitly\/6.jpg\" height=300 width=225><br \/>\nSuch a touching moment for Charlton Heston to kiss that ape from Planet of the Apes &#8211; touching enough for someone to actually capture it on canvas!  After all, aren&#8217;t we humans really just a bunch of hairless romantic apes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a big week for bit.ly in the news. Lots of buzz about Google and Facebook coming out with their own URL shorteners, but but they&#8217;re not down by a long shot. Bit.ly Pro is really great and of course, I setup my own URL shortener, http:\/\/www.ds.ly, just for kicks (by the way, buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-making-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}