1. Bitmarks
This is Bitly's definition of its new bitmarks, which act as smart bookmarks that save to your Bitly profile.
After you save a URL, Bitly files it as a bitmark and attaches data, such as shares, clicks and saves, which you may monitor in the stats section of your profile (more on that later).
You may share your bitmark to the social networks you've connected to Bitly (Facebook and/or Twitter).
Finally, you may also choose to file your bitmarks into one of your curated "bundles," another new Bitly feature.
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No longer a simple URL shortner, Bitly has expanded access to its data archive, improved discovery and introduced an entire redesign, so that you may more easily monitor your shortlink shares.
However, "easily" may be a misnomer -- reactions to Bitly's new redesign have been lackluster. That's why we're here to sift through the confusion with an overview of the Bitly basics.
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Learn how to use the service's new "bitmark" tool, essentially a new way to organize and share bookmarks on the web. Find out how to organize and curate those bitmarks into "bundles," wherein others might collaborate. And finally, learn how the heck to shorten a URL -- after all, that's what you used Bitly for in the first place, right?
Have you explored Bitly's brand new site? Does the redesign add a valuable layer of data, or do you prefer Bitly's former simplicity?
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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