Last night the folks at bit.ly hosted a hackathon, called hackabit, to celebrate their 2nd anniversary (congratulations guys!). It was awesome; there were a bunch of us there from 10gen, the bit.ly people are great, and it was fun just hanging out and working on stuff. There was a lot of coding being done, but I don’t have links to much of it (one cool project was a Python url normalization library by Jehiah). If anybody has links to other projects people were working on, let me know.

I wanted to do yet another quick JS game, and also wanted to do something bit.ly themed. The result is be bit.ly - a game where you play the role of the bit.ly website, by shortening incoming urls and turning shortened urls back into long ones. It sounds a bit strange, but I think it came out okay - hope you enjoy it! I know there are some rough edges, but time was short. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Edit: Chris also created a bit.ly inspired game at hackabit, Bitly Sea - it’s pretty fun, check it out!