Today Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword “startups” in technology on Twitter:As you can see, it’s not perfect yet (why is that article on hidden Moun

Bitly just announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding led by Khosla Ventures.Back in May, The Verge reported that bitly was raising $20 million in new funding and preparing to launch a more consumer-oriented service. At the time, a company spokesperson said the story was “not based on any facts,” but the denial was worded in a vague enough way to leave the door open for future fundin

Welcome to the new Bitly. Today the URL shortener unveiled its major redesign with a focus on its social bookmarking features. Other updates include the ability to search for these bookmarks, beefed-up profiles, and the release of Bitly’s first iOS app (iTunes link). Unfortunately, the new design sacrifices the URL shortening experience to instead compel users to sign up.The impact of Bitly’s imp