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Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Nic — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:09:03 -0000

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.

Enjoy! Cheers.
Nic

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

amitkumar01 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:32:57 -0000

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.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Scott Carter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:07:47 -0000

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:

http://bit.ly/HUsO

Note the toolbar at the top.

- Scott

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

jayridge — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:24:11 -0000

bitlyfs macfuse filesystem

http://bit.ly/bitlyfs

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Bit.ly — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:07:53 -0000

Approve.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Alex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:05:42 -0000

We just added bit.ly support to http://easytweets.com

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

ruslanas — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:45:07 -0000

SOAP server http://ruslanas.com/bitly/s...
WSDL document http://ruslanas.com/bitly/b...
Working client http://bit.ly/EV9H
Uses PHP Bitly class http://bit.ly/gNVh
Open source http://bit.ly/HZXo

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

falicon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:38:45 -0000

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. :)

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Andrew Kraut — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:34:42 -0000

Wow, I clearly typo'd that url.

Python library:

http://opie4624.github.com/...

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Jacinto — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:27:33 -0000

http://bit.ly/mywahi

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.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

ruslanas — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:58:32 -0000

jQuery plugin [ http://bitly.googlecode.com ]
Sample application [ http://bit.ly/1qmRrZ ]

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Bryan Woods — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:28 -0000

This is great! Will definitely be a great help to me in the future both for this project and others.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

dhbello — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:17:01 -0000

IEShortURL
http://bit.ly/Snjo

A bit.ly add-in for Internet Explorer

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

philnash — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:24:27 -0000

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

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Brian Driscoll — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:54:35 -0000

(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)

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.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Den — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:20:49 -0000

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

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

vacanti — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:50:28 -0000

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

Also, TechCrunch just wrote about us: http://bit.ly/yGo9

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Bit.ly — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:23:13 -0000

This is hot.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Bryan Woods — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:54:39 -0000

http://gritly.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.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Bruno Pedro — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:50:37 -0000

The tarpipe bit.ly connector.

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/

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

sreeniii — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:47:13 -0000

and by the way i am getting a 404 error when i try to shorten http://bitlycommand.googlec... using bit.ly ..
may be its a bug..

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

sreeniii — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:43:05 -0000

I have also added support for copy to clipboard ...
you can get the new version from here
http://bitlycommand.googlec...

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

kortina — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:31:29 -0000

Looking forward to seeing this.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

Chris Hannam — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:43:02 -0000

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.

http://www.chrishannam.co.u...

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

tweetpros — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:00:53 -0000

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.