This can cause confusion for both the search engines, which often pick up the shortened URLs instead of or in addition to the original, and users who may share the shortened link instead of the original. (Note: That case was settled out of court.)īut more to the point, content creators object to the fact that such framing creates two URLs for the same content. Not only does it come with potential trademark, copyright and Tortious interference with Business Relationships, all which were raised in the case Washington Post v. The reason content creators are upset about services like the Diggbar and Ht.ly is because framing hurts the original site owner. The question is whether this will appease those upset about the social bar at all and, if so, what the thoughts will be on the new Ht.ly shortener. ![]() Hootsuite is also starting up a new URL shortener, Ht.ly, that will continue to use the social bar and Hootsuite users will have the choice between the two services. Today, Hootsuite announced that the social bar at the top of Ow.ly URLs are disappearing and those links will, instead, just forward on to the original URL, as with other shorteners. Hootsuite, the makers of the popular Twitter clients, used a very similar method with its popular Ow.ly URL shortener. Another popular URL shortener was doing much the same thing. However, even as the Diggbar was stirring controversy and, eventually, dying. ![]() Though Digg made changes to mitigate those concerns, many of them remained until the pending demise of the bar was announced. The controversial tool, which got its start almost exactly a year before, caused a storm of accusation of content theft as it placed a frame above sites it linked to, both adding a Digg logo and other Digg elements, but also redirecting the content to a URL on Digg’s domain. Earlier this month, Digg announced that they were killing off the Diggbar, calling it “ Bad for the Internet“.
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