tr.im_logoTr.im has certainly been in the headlines since the last week. Well the latest news is that Tr.im will be going open source and will be community owned on or before 15th September. Nambu, the owners of the URL shortening service first off all apologized over the speedy manner in which they announced the shutdown of Tr.im. They took the opportunity to once again highlight the fact that its existence was not possible in the presence of bit.ly and Twitter partnership. The people at Nambu seemed unhappy at how TechCrunch handled this news, claiming that the people at TechCrunch simply repeated the vertbatim what bit.ly/twitter feeded them.This is how they announced the news:

Everyone involved at Nambu would like to apologize again for the hastiness in which we acted last Sunday, announcing the shutdown of tr.im by the end of the year. As a commercial URL shortener, however, we still believe that tr.im would not be able to reach enough scale to justify additional investment against the bit.ly/twitter embargo. Therefore, starting today, tr.im will begin its migration into the public domain, becoming 100% community-owned, operated, and developed.

However they seemed hopeful for the future of Tr.im as a community owned URL shortening service.

It is our hope that tr.im, being an excellent URL shortener in its own right, can now begin to stand in contrast to the closed twitter/bit.ly walled garden: it will become a completely open solution owned and operated by the community for the benefit of the entire community.

I think, the way people at Nimbu handled this issue would have surely decreased their user base and made their users unhappy. What do you think. Mentioned below are the links related to this story.