Tr.im Can’t/Won’t Sell, Goes Open Source, Blames Everyone

Oh, this is rich. The Nambu Network , owners of the URL-shortening service Tr.im announced today that the service will go open source on or before September 15 of this year. That's odd since the service has now gone from completely shutting down , to trying hard to sell , to bringing the service back up so it can sell, to now going open source in just 8 days. Let me be clear, going open source is a great idea, I'm not sure if it will help Tr.im all that much , but on paper it sounds great. That's what they should have done originally. But in a post today on Tr.im's blog the service first apologizes for this whole fiasco, and then attempts to place blame elsewhere. As I read it, it's either Bit.ly's fault for making a low-ball offer to buy the Tr.im, Twitter's fault for picking Bit.ly over Tr.im as its URL shortener of choice, 301works.org 's fault for being a "public relations stunt", and yes, even TechCrunch's fault because we "simply repeat vertbatim what twitter/bit.ly feeds [us]".