Link roundup for 11/24/07

By Ben Gross
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TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service’s Risks: TinyURL is one of the most well known services that provide short URL redirection services. It is popular with users of mobile messaging services such as Twitter.

Box.net Launches OpenBox, an Online Storage Platform: Box.net is a relative newcomer to the web-based file upload services which make it convenient to share large files without using email attachments. Their latest service, OpenBox, extends the service through a public API so that other social services can use Box.net to share files. It can be used as a storage backend for creating mashups.

Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: the NYT talked to execs at Google and Yahoo about using the existing latent social network that already exists in email more explicitly in future products.

Published November 24, 2007