AOL UK block snipurl.com and snipr.com :-(
I was following MikeO's tweet annoucement and went to follow his link (http://snipurl.com/5a5h6) .. it was then I realised that my ISP would not resolve the snipurl domain, how annoying!
I checked it with a proxy website (babelfish) and yeah sure enough the site was up, but not accessible through my connection. I think it may just be a mistake with the DNS settings, but I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out as apparently it takes AOL technical team 24 hours to reply to my ticket!
In the meantime, I told Mike Ormond about this and he changed his powershell script to use tinyurl.com instead, he did not realise that the API was available and apparently is a more simplified model! anyhoo, great news for me as I'm now working :-) thanks Mike!