Topic: Bitly Inc.

BCS National Championship Game: It’s Alabama football quiz time!

Alabama and Louisiana State go at it tonight with everything on the line in the New Orleans Superdome. Each team has multiple national titles and a rich football tradition. LSU prevailed in a regular-season matchup, 9-6, in overtime in a score that reflects just how evenly matched these teams are. While waiting for the kickoff, test your knowledge of Alabama’s football tradition, then link to the corresponding LSU quiz(http://bit.ly/ytNweR) to test your grasp of the Bayou Bengals’ gridiron history.

Watch out Chávez, Fidel Castro now has 100,000 Twitter followers

Tweet-happy Hugo Chávez now has competition. But not even Twitter has been able to persuade Cuba's Fidel Castro of the importance of brevity.

URL shortening grows up

Announcements from Facebook, Google, and Bit.ly change the shortening landscape.

Balloon boy charges are imminent - Twitter reacts with joy (mostly)

Balloon boy charges will be filed soon, according to Colorado officials. Richard Heene, the father of the balloon boy, will be charged with at least a count of falsifying a report.

Short Web address sites form link archiving group

Those providers are now teaming up with data aggregation and syndication services company Gnip Inc. to form a system for archiving link data.

Dell tweets to the tune of $3 million