Download.com lists LinkBunch

After covering it in WebWare, C|Net's newly opened web apps section on Download.com has now included LinkBunch.

We are delighted to inform you that our editors have selected LinkBunch to be listed on CNET Download.com. CNET Download.com is expanding its content coverage to include Web-based applications. We feel that your product is one of superior quality and essential to helping us build a world-class download library.

Head over to C|Net's Download.com listing of LinkBunch.

Lockergnome sees the future with LinkBunch!

Around ten years ago, I had developed an application called QCI, which was a back-up utility for the then popular ICQ instant messaging client. Lockergnome had written about it in the newsletter, which was all Lockergnome was back then!

Ten years later, I've developed something that fancies Lockergnome once again! LinkBunch is now featured in Lockergnome's April 15th post. Here's what Brandon Watts had to say about LinkBunch:

With online communication becoming more streamlined than ever, a lot of people are now communicating using links instead of words, and it’s time for links to be able to do more than just go to a single Web site. LinkBunch is about as simple as it could possibly be. All you do is provide a list of links that you’d like to create a single link for and the service will then bunch them all together so that when someone click on the LinkBunch link, they’ll see a list of URLs that they can then visit. You know, sometimes big things come in small packages.

Now I just hope it doesn't take me another ten years to make something that LG can wrote about once again! :)

LinkBunch featured in C|Net's WebWare!

C|Net's WebWare, a Web 2.0 resource I frequent several times a day, has mentioned LinkBunch!

They had the usual stuff to say about what it does and what it's used for, but Josh Lowensohn was a little turned off by the fact that a LinkBunch with a single link would still show you the whole page instead of redirecting you to that link directly. Well, Josh, I didn't add that feature because LinkBunch was always meant to be used for more than just one link. For single link URL shortening/redirection, I'd recommend regular TinyURL services like xrl.in or url.ie! But still, thanks for the mention!

Visit: LinkBunch makes multiple huge URLs tiny (C|Net WebWare)

LinkBunch gets featured in the Mumbai Mirror!

LinkBunch has been deemed useful enough to be featured as a site of the day in Mumbai Mirror's Sci-Tech section today, the 26th of February, 2008.

Here is a grab from the epaper website:



And here is a link to the web version of the post.

This is what was written:

While browsing the Web, you might come across several interesting links that you want to share with your friends. But copy-pasting each of them can be quite a task, and also looks messy. Today’s resource, LinkBunch, promises to make this easier, by letting you create one common address for all your links. Simply copy-paste them in the box provided, and click “Bunch” to get a unique address that can be sent to friends. Once they open it, they can either visit the links individually or all of them at the same time.

Simple and to-the-point, just the way LinkBunch is!

LinkBunch on TechCrunch^H^H^H...

First Download Squad, then LifeHacker, and now TechCrunch? Well, almost. Around four hours ago, TechCrunch's Duncan Riley wrote about LinkBunch, but pulled it off shortly after. Why? No one knows.

Fortunately, @preshit (who was also the one to point it out in the first place!) grabbed a screen from his NNW and put it up on his Skitch:

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Here's a transcript of the post:

URL shortening services have grown in popularity as services such as Twitter have driven demand for shorter URLs (although the idea has been around for a long time).

For those not familiar with the concept, you add a URL to one of these services, and it provides you with a shortened URL you can share with friends. Some also come with bookmarklets for one click shortening.

LinkBun.ch takes the idea of shortening URLs to multiple sites. Users simply add the URL's they want a LinkBun.ch URL for, and they get a short URL in return. For example, http://linkbun.ch/0hl offers a page with links to both TechCrunch and CrunchGear on it, that can be shared on Twitter or similar services with friends.

LinkBun.ch isn't going to win any awards for being amazing, but none of the services in this thriving sector would. Ultimately it's a case of simplicity combined with functionality and LinkBun.ch meets that criteria.

I know it's difficult to get Arrington to link to your site, but at least I can say I was almost there. :)

LinkBunch makes it to LifeHacker!

Another one of my daily reads has posted about LinkBunch. LifeHacker's Kevin Purdy has this to say about my multiple-links-in-one service:

Head to LinkBunch, type or paste in your addresses one per line, and you'll get a LinkBunch URL that points to a fast-loading page with all your links on it, as well as a meta-link that opens them all. Better still, Firefox users can install a LinkBunch extension that lets you automatically submit all your open tabs for a LinkBunch URL.

He picked it up from the original post on LifeHacker Australia, who's Sarah Stokely really liked the 'Open entire bunch' and the idea of the upcoming Twitter bot for LinkBunch:

I can definitely see LinkBunch having a place in my browser alongside TinyURL, and active Twitter users will also be interested to know that LinkBunch is also being integrated into Twitter. [...] Nice.

Sarah in turn picked it up from Web Worker Daily, where Mike Gunderloy said:

LinkBunch is a link-shortening service (similar to the selection we reviewed a while back), but with a twist: you can enter a whole list of links, and it will give you one shorter link to represent them all.

Thanks everyone for the support!

Note: The server issue of a blank page has been sorted, and now you can access LinkBunch without any problem. Here's a bunch with all the abovementioned links: http://linkbun.ch/sx

LinkBunch makes it to Download Squad!

One of my favorite download/web/technology blogs, Download Squad, has written about LinkBunch. Thanks, DS!

Download Squad also mentioned that a bookmarklet to create a bunch from open tabs would be nice. While a bookmarklet wouldn't be possible due to security issues, an extension is certainly possible.

While Googling, I came across another few sites writing about LinkBunch. Here's a bunch of those links ;) - http://linkbun.ch/6d