Short URL Security Matters

by Andy Meadows March 17, 2010

No, you’re not confused.  If you came here from a TechCrunch or Wall Street Journal link, you were duped on purpose.  No harm intended.  Just a dose of reality to the real world of short URL services.  Keep reading for the details. The purpose of this post is to serve as a major wake-up call [...]

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The fight against spammers

by mike March 9, 2010

Fighting spammers and phishers (if that is what they are called) is an ongoing battle at BudURL. Staying off of blacklists is also an ongoing battle. We regularly check surbl.org, uribl.org, spamhaus.org, and a couple of others to see if BudURL.com is listed there. Sometimes I wish there was a single definitive source that we [...]

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No More Contracts

by Andy Meadows March 2, 2010

Late last year, we decided that we were done with long-term contracts that lock you into aging technology at fixed pricing.  Going forward, everything is 30-days at a time.  This was a hard lesson learned, but it had to be experienced to fully appreciate it.  Admittedly, there are some services that absolutely require a contract [...]

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Our Next Product: BearHug

by Andy Meadows February 22, 2010

Most people believe that customer service is painful, supporting your customers is a burden, and that the function of customer service hurts the bottom line.  For some organizations, it does, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Live Oak 360 has always felt very strongly about taking care of our customers.  We spend a [...]

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Live Oak 360 Ditches Rent for More Sunshine

by Andy Meadows February 17, 2010

The secret is out.  Live Oak 360 has been operating as a virtual company for several months.  Our “experiment” is over and the result is a resounding success.  As a company, we’re healthier and happier than ever.  As we celebrate 8 years in business this month, we wanted to share our story about how we [...]

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Ez.com: Manage Users for Each Domain

by Andy Meadows January 28, 2010

Some interactive and social media agencies have asked us how they can use Ez.com to manage their customer’s social media efforts.  We recently added a great new feature that makes this easier and more secure than ever. If you sign up for a multi-domain plan in Ez.com, you’ll be able to assign individual account holders [...]

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Shrink & Tweet

by Andy Meadows January 26, 2010

BudURL & Ez.com received a must-requested feature – the ability to shrink, schedule, & tweet.  In a single click, you can use the new bookmarklet to create a short URL, write your tweet, and immediately post or schedule it for the future.  It’s so easy!  Even if you manage multiple domains on Ez.com, you can [...]

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New Plan Options for Ez.com Accounts

by Andy Meadows October 15, 2009

After a lot of conversation, feedback, and soul-searching, we have made some significant changes to our plan options at Ez.com.  At the core, we realized our primary focus was making it easy to have your own custom URL shortener.  We decided to make this a standard feature of all paid plans.  In addition, we added [...]

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Wall Street Journal talks about BudURL & Ez.com

by Andy Meadows October 12, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has written an excellent piece about safety and security of short links in their article, “Social-Media Con Game.”  BudURL and Ez.com are both featured as solutions used by AMD and the Seattle Seahawks/Sounders FC organizations to combat link fraud.

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Facebook Blacklist of BudURL

by Andy Meadows October 5, 2009

Update: The Blacklist has been removed. Huge thanks to Jason Stoddard of Stagira for all his assistance and special thanks to the little elves inside of Facebook that flipped the switch. As many of you are aware, Facebook began blocking BudURL and several other URL shorteners last week.  We have been reporting the issue daily [...]

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