Lady Gaga and 50 Cent's URL Shortening Service Sounds Dumb 10.80K Remy Stern 06/15/11 11:03PM Filed to: Startups Startups Republished Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that's run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact he lives on NYC's hipster-laden Lower East Side? [Gizmodo]