"Chief Scientist" always struck me as an odd title for a startup like this. What sort of science is being conducted in URL shortening? Is it one of those cute startup titles or is there some real meaning behind it?
We build systems on top of the bitly data. This involves things like algorithms for identifying spam and malware, real-time content recommendations (which you can see in http://news.me), categorical analysis, etc.
We also do a few pure research studies, like this one: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_your_device_change...