Tr.im who has been in the headlines lately. Latest in this regard is that the Nimbu owned URL shortening service will be handed over to the open source community by September 15. The primary reason as far as I see is because it could not simply accept the bit.ly partnership with Twitter.

Tr.im realizing the fact that its user would be upset with them for the way they handled things since last week, apologized to its user base. They accecpted their mistake of handling the shutting down of Tr.im in hastiness. For a more detailed post see this link.