Adjix Joins 301Works.org

Adjix has joined the 301Works.org project which was announced this morning.

301Works is a project which ensures that shortened URLs can live on in case the company providing the link shrinking service goes out of business.

TechCrunch has been covering this topic all week - ever since tr.im announced their plans to turn off their link shrinking service:
http://adjix.com/iyxj

Mashable's coverage of this announcement made it to the front page of Digg:
http://adjix.com/jb8u

You can find the full press release here:
http://adjix.com/izhi

Startup Story Radio Interview

Rob McNealy, over at Startup Story Radio, just posted a podcast interview that he conducted with me. It's about 40 minutes long and, in addition to interviewing me, Rob shares some of his experiences regarding social media and advertising:
http://adjix.com/ehkn

Guy Kawasaki Touts Adjix During Keynote

Guy Kawasaki, who is a big fan of Adjix, touted our virtues when he gave the keynote speech at last week's Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC. Although he mentioned Adjix several times, the best segment is from 22:20 - 24:30.
http://adjix.com/423y

Our Favorite Tweets

We just had to brag about our favorite tweets on Twitter.

Plus, we have a little buzz going.

Adjix Link Clicks (10,000+)

Here's a small sample of link clicks from a random Adjix Linker who created two links. For every one of the 28,000 clicks, below, Adjix has recorded detailed link data.

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Here's a sample of the detailed link data

(IP addresses have been changed for privacy reasons).

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Whether Adjix Linkers create links that only get a few clicks or thousands, they all love the data that we collect on their links. We're constantly looking for ways to improve Adjix – please don't hesitate to send us your feedback.

Adjix Interview by ActionsTalk

ActionsTalk #10 - Adjix from ActionsTalk on Vimeo.

Mashable Coverage

Mashable, a social networking news blog with over 5 million monthly page views, covered Adjix this week with a great review.

Read about it here.

Adjix in the News Again

Adjix continues to receive attention in the press and in the blogosphere.

CNet reviewed Adjix this past Friday. I'd really like to know how they found out about Adjix just four days after our launch.

Here's another review by a blogger. After he received some criticism of his review from his readers he followed up with me and gave me a chance to respond.

Last, but not least, here's a Japanese review (translation) and Argentinean review (translation).

- Joe

Adjix Plug in Japan

Late, yesterday afternoon, something strange happened.

We saw a surge in traffic from Japan bigger than the one that followed Guy Kawasaki's plug on Twitter. After examining the server logs, we found that someone in Japan blogged about Adjix.

What does it say? Here's a rough translation.

In the last 96 hours, since our official launch on Tuesday, we've receive a bunch of attention. 

Here are just a few of the Adjix mentions:

1. SoCalTech.com

2. The North County Times saw the SoCalTech story and called me for an interview and ran this story.

3. Here's a blogger with a review of Adjix. This review points out some great issues which we've considered and prioritized since we began working on Adjix. We just launched, so features will improve over time.

4. Are people using Adjix? One way to tell is to see who's talking about it on Twitter:
Adjix on Twitter
ad.vu on Twitter (ad.vu are our ultra-short URLs)

- Joe

Adjix Plug From Guy Kawasaki

Yesterday was our official launch for Adjix. Today, Guy Kawasaki, Apple's first Macintosh evangelist, Tweeted about Adjix to his 18,200+ followers by saying "Make money by shortening links":
http://twitter.com/guykawasaki/statuses/893814052

Immediately, the network traffic to the Adjix servers spiked for hours. I'm impressed that all held up without skipping a beat. We'll see where this takes us.

- Joe