March 7th, 2008
Check Out My Friend Aalaap Ghag’s Really Cool Link Aggregator LinkBunch
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Quick Summary: LinkBunch is a nifty new service that allows you to bunch multiple long links into one tiny link.
Over the last few months, I have met many interesting people through Twitter, and the two @MumbaiTwit tweetups that I organized (1 and 2) and I’m amazed by some of the cool things these people are doing. Take Aaalap Ghag (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter), as an example. Aaalap, a developer at Web 18, is also India’s most prolific Twitter user (3400+ tweets!) and the creator of the really cool link aggregator LinkBunch.
LinkBunch is a nifty new service that allows you to bunch multiple long links into one tiny link like http://linkbun.ch/3ox (which is a bunch of all my blog, feed and social network profile links). You can then share the link over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS. When the recipient clicks on the LinkBunch link, it opens up into a page that contains all the links that you have put in the bunch. They can then open one link at a time or all the links, all at once.
Here are a few ways in which people are using LinkBunch –
- Bunch all your blog, feed and social network profile links into one tiny link (here’s mine).
- Bunch of all your open tabs in the browser using the LinkBunch Firefox extension.
- Bunch all the links in a directory into one tiny link. For instance, I have bunched all the links from my directory of social media agencies in India into a LinkBunch.
As of now, there isn’t a way to edit bunches, but Aalaap is working on a user account based system that will let you easily manage all your created bunches, favorite bunches, friend’s bunches etc.
LinkBunch has an active official blog, a GetSatisfaction based support forum, and an easy-to-use API.
LinkBunch has been getting a lot of traction on technology blogs and even mainstream media and I can see it becoming a really popular service very soon.
Also see: CNet’s Webware, Mumbai Mirror, Download Squad, Lifehacker and more.
woah.. Linkbunch ! neat concept..
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