PreferenceSet

Responding to the growing popularity of link shorteners (services which compress long links into short, coded links), Facebook, Google and Bit.ly. all announced new products yesterday. Google and Facebook are launching their own link shorteners, while Bit.ly is enhancing their market leading service. Beyond the excitement of these new developments, none of the new services […]

Recently we launched an internal project called Giv.to.  Giv.to is a URL shortener with a few additional tricks.  To support all the features we wanted to provide our uses, we decided to go with a full Ruby on Rails application.  We were worried about expensive scaling with Rails, if the service ever really caught on. […]