The creator of tinyurl.com happens to be from our neck of the woods. We had a local blog/tech seminar recently where he attended and said he plans to keep the shortened URLs around forever. Here's an article where it is mentioned:
http://minnov8.com/2008/07/09/tinyurl/ Can't speak for the other services, but tr.im did eventually find a way to keep it's urls working. -- Justin Heideman / New Media Designer / Walker Art Center justin.heideman at walkerart.org / 612.375.7545 On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Proctor, Nancy wrote: > Does anyone know or have experience of the life span of compressed > URLs from the various services? (tiny, bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) I know > what they promise, but...
