I don't know if this counts, as its been in action for just about as long as the bit.ly api has existed, but I have a bot that has generated tens of thousands of bit.ly links!
Here's something I made to help other people who dev. in c#. Hopefully some can make something cool with it: http://sites.google.com/site/bitlyapp/ Its a simple app that is basically an example for the Bit.ly API. Hope it helps someone!
We have a service that allows you to do many different types of bots, retweet, dm-tweet, autofollow, and feed-tweets. The feed-tweet bots use the bit.ly api to shorten the url to the actual rss entry url. We are also working on a time-tweet bot which allows you to "future" date a twitter entry and we will likely use bit.ly api for that as well.
Sends you links to news and blog posts happening within 1000 feet of any address in the United States. nearlies are sent via Twitter direct message and use bit.ly to shorten the URLS.
Here's a great way to save time when writing a Tweet! This browser extension runs on the main Twitter home page, in the Update text entry box. Continuously checks for new URLs as you type. After you press space bar following a new URL, this script instantly replaces the URL with a bit.ly tiny URL. This script will act on any non bit.ly URL it finds in your Tweet.
Nothing spectacular, certainly not worthy of winning the competition, but might be of interest to others.
We have added bit.ly to the Travel Notes toolbar; so that users can create a short URL when they are visiting a page they want to Twitter; located in the drop-down Travel menu - then Web Tools.
Long URL Please is also in there, handy for revealing all those shortened URLs - posted by others - when you're on a Twitter page.
And just to complete the experience - with Twitter located in the search box choices, users can easily search tweets at any time.
To get to your own Twitter page from the Twitter search page, clear the toolbar search box and - with Twitter still selected - just press go, then click on the home link to post your own tweet.
Oh, and toolbar users can search bit.ly from our search box as well.
LazyTweet (http://www.lazytweet.com) is a mashup of the Lazyweb and twitter, allowing twitter users to ask questions and ideas to a network beyond their own followers. LazyTweet utilizes the bit.ly API when retweeting posts, which allows followers of the @lazytweet bot to keep track of requests coming in.
bassdread
· 11 months ago
Created a simple Python class for use with Google App Engine. Its pretty simple at the moment as I was in a hurry for the deadline - but I see thats changed so hopefully I`ll get chance to spruce it up.
tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications. The bit.ly connector lets you automatically shorten URLs you're sharing using the bit.ly service.
Right now the Gritly shrink machine laser beam can take up to 5 long URLs and morph them into one single, shareable bit.ly.
We built and designed this over the weekend but are looking for feature suggestions and comments.
We're also designing a REST API for Gritly in hopes that the grouping ability will be added to more clients and utilities.
Vinicius Vacanti
· 11 months ago
Spent last weekend creating 140it. It's a bookmarklet that makes tweets less than 140 characters. If the tweet has a url in it, it reduces it using the bit.ly api. You can find the bookmarklet here: http://140it.com
Annotated links - pack together one or several links and your own comment as post-it note. This version uses Bit.ly: http://al.linkstore.ru
Brian Driscoll
· 11 months ago
(x-posted from the comment thread on the Contest Update entry, just to be sure I'm getting this in the right place(s). Admin/Mod - feel free to delete this comment or the other one if you'd like)
This library allows .NET developers who wish to leverage the Bitly API in their applications a way of quickly implementing the Bitly API in their libraries/apps without having to worry about the plumbing, constructing calls, etc.
The zip file includes the BitlyXAPI DLL, a sample application (with source code), and documentation.
philnash
· 11 months ago
This is my first go at an API Wrapper, a ruby wrapper for bit.ly: http://bit.ly/rubyapi
It's also packaged as a gem, to install:
sudo gem install philnash-bitly
Bryan Woods
· 11 months ago
This is great! Will definitely be a great help to me in the future both for this project and others.
my wahi is a mashup that lets anyone bookmark geographic locations. These can be anything from restaurants, to geocaches, to surf spots. my wahi generates a bit.ly hash for each place that is bookmarked.
It was my intention that users could keep a history of their bookmarked places in bit.ly, but this doesn't seem to work when an API key is used.
Threw bit.ly support into a couple different projects: http://www.haflbite.com lets you analyze tweet streams for various users and/or for your timeline (uses bit.ly api to expand urls tweeted)...you can also just analyze the links people in your timeline are tweeting for you (again using bit.ly API to automatically expand those uri).
http://www.jivegas.com uses the bit.ly API to shorten (and expand) URI to then do twitter, delicious, digg and yahoo boss searches (among others) for related and relevant content.
Both systems are still in early/ugly stages but are functional and getting a little bit of real user usage...they are also both written in Perl with my own custom bit.ly API wrapper (which I will gladly share with others when I get the time to dump it out somewhere).
Any feedback, questions, comments are gladly welcome...just email me at info@falicon.com any time. :)
BigTweet http://bigtweet.com/ lets you surf the Web and post to Twitter. BigTweet installs as a bookmarklet on all the major browsers and lets you shorten URLs (with Bit.ly of course) as well as automaticaly capture link, title and highlighted text.
A new feature just launched is the BigTweet Web Toolbar (similar to StumbleUpon concept) which can be enabled from the bookmarklet when shortening links. I use both the shorten and expand Bit.ly API calls with this feature. Results are cached with memcached to minimize calls to the Bit.ly API. To see this in action, check out the following URL shortened by BigTweet using Bit.ly:
We always seem to find the best stuff when browsing from our phones so we created an app that makes it easy to share from your BlackBerry…
bit.lify ( http://bit.ly/bitlify ) is a BlackBerry application that makes it easy to share urls on the go. By integrating with the BlackBerry Browser bit.lify makes it easy to shorten and share websites via email, sms, and pin message.
Nic
· 10 months ago
Was bug swatting until the last second! I'm not a designer, or a QA guy, so this project was a handful to do myself (competing with work, none the less). My entry is called "Chirply". http://chirp.ly/
It's a way to discover content and people relevent to your interests by browsing through bit.ly links being passed around Twitter. Try my page, for example. http://chirp.ly/nicluciano
It shows all of a users tweets containing a bit.ly URL (and what they said about it), which you can then click to view more info. Find new content and people by going back and forth between relevent links and users.
I also made a Chirply companion Firefox extension (http://chirp.ly/chirply.xpi). Just add your Twitter credentials in the add-on options and select "Chirp This Page" from the bookmarks menu on a website you'd like to Tweet. The extension is not my entry, nor is it anywhere complete (nor has it been tested thoroughly). Just felt like throwing it in here for fun.
All Comments
lastfmlovetweet.com is the url, and you can see it in action at http://bit.ly/10Rrw
Peter (@pootytang)
PS
I WANT SHWAG (can you include a sticker???)
Python client API
http://sites.google.com/site/bitlyapp/
Its a simple app that is basically an example for the Bit.ly API. Hope it helps someone!
We have a service that allows you to do many different types of bots, retweet, dm-tweet, autofollow, and feed-tweets. The feed-tweet bots use the bit.ly api to shorten the url to the actual rss entry url. We are also working on a time-tweet bot which allows you to "future" date a twitter entry and we will likely use bit.ly api for that as well.
Sends you links to news and blog posts happening within 1000 feet of any address in the United States. nearlies are sent via Twitter direct message and use bit.ly to shorten the URLS.
Generated nearly 9000 bit.ly urls since November!
http://bit.ly/8Rj
Here's a great way to save time when writing a Tweet! This browser extension runs on the main Twitter home page, in the Update text entry box. Continuously checks for new URLs as you type. After you press space bar following a new URL, this script instantly replaces the URL with a bit.ly tiny URL. This script will act on any non bit.ly URL it finds in your Tweet.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39042
I added a bit.ly URL shortener/expander and bit.ly URL click analytics to my web-based Twitter client, http://itweet.net ... the API worked out great!
Server-side interface for Bit.ly API
We have added bit.ly to the Travel Notes toolbar; so that users can create a short URL when they are visiting a page they want to Twitter; located in the drop-down Travel menu - then Web Tools.
Long URL Please is also in there, handy for revealing all those shortened URLs - posted by others - when you're on a Twitter page.
And just to complete the experience - with Twitter located in the search box choices, users can easily search tweets at any time.
To get to your own Twitter page from the Twitter search page, clear the toolbar search box and - with Twitter still selected - just press go, then click on the home link to post your own tweet.
Oh, and toolbar users can search bit.ly from our search box as well.
Michel
http://travelnotes.loyaltytoolbar.com/
:)
bit.ly command for ubiquity
http://bit.ly/qGSl
you can get the new version from here
http://bitlycommand.googlecode.com/files/bit.ly...
may be its a bug..
http://www.chrishannam.co.uk/2009/01/bitly-comp...
tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications. The bit.ly connector lets you automatically shorten URLs you're sharing using the bit.ly service.
Check it out at http://tarpipe.com/
Gritly shrinks a group of URLs into one bit.ly
Right now the Gritly shrink machine laser beam can take up to 5 long URLs and morph them into one single, shareable bit.ly.
We built and designed this over the weekend but are looking for feature suggestions and comments.
We're also designing a REST API for Gritly in hopes that the grouping ability will be added to more clients and utilities.
Also, TechCrunch just wrote about us: http://bit.ly/yGo9
BitlyXAPI library for .NET development: http://bit.ly/gnBS
This library allows .NET developers who wish to leverage the Bitly API in their applications a way of quickly implementing the Bitly API in their libraries/apps without having to worry about the plumbing, constructing calls, etc.
The zip file includes the BitlyXAPI DLL, a sample application (with source code), and documentation.
It's also packaged as a gem, to install:
sudo gem install philnash-bitly
http://bit.ly/Snjo
A bit.ly add-in for Internet Explorer
Sample application [ http://bit.ly/1qmRrZ ]
my wahi is a mashup that lets anyone bookmark geographic locations. These can be anything from restaurants, to geocaches, to surf spots. my wahi generates a bit.ly hash for each place that is bookmarked.
It was my intention that users could keep a history of their bookmarked places in bit.ly, but this doesn't seem to work when an API key is used.
Python library:
http://opie4624.github.com/bitly.py
http://www.jivegas.com uses the bit.ly API to shorten (and expand) URI to then do twitter, delicious, digg and yahoo boss searches (among others) for related and relevant content.
Both systems are still in early/ugly stages but are functional and getting a little bit of real user usage...they are also both written in Perl with my own custom bit.ly API wrapper (which I will gladly share with others when I get the time to dump it out somewhere).
Any feedback, questions, comments are gladly welcome...just email me at info@falicon.com any time. :)
WSDL document http://ruslanas.com/bitly/bitly.wsdl
Working client http://bit.ly/EV9H
Uses PHP Bitly class http://bit.ly/gNVh
Open source http://bit.ly/HZXo
http://bit.ly/bitlyfs
A new feature just launched is the BigTweet Web Toolbar (similar to StumbleUpon concept) which can be enabled from the bookmarklet when shortening links. I use both the shorten and expand Bit.ly API calls with this feature. Results are cached with memcached to minimize calls to the Bit.ly API. To see this in action, check out the following URL shortened by BigTweet using Bit.ly:
http://bit.ly/HUsO
Note the toolbar at the top.
- Scott
bit.lify ( http://bit.ly/bitlify ) is a BlackBerry application that makes it easy to share urls on the go. By integrating with the BlackBerry Browser bit.lify makes it easy to shorten and share websites via email, sms, and pin message.
It's a way to discover content and people relevent to your interests by browsing through bit.ly links being passed around Twitter. Try my page, for example. http://chirp.ly/nicluciano
It shows all of a users tweets containing a bit.ly URL (and what they said about it), which you can then click to view more info. Find new content and people by going back and forth between relevent links and users.
I also made a Chirply companion Firefox extension (http://chirp.ly/chirply.xpi). Just add your Twitter credentials in the add-on options and select "Chirp This Page" from the bookmarks menu on a website you'd like to Tweet. The extension is not my entry, nor is it anywhere complete (nor has it been tested thoroughly). Just felt like throwing it in here for fun.
Enjoy! Cheers.
Nic