I wasn't really wanting intergration with tinyurl or bit.ly. I would like to have that functionality built into the cms along the lines of the Arstechnica's (I'm assuming homebrewed) arst.ch shortening site.

so I could have a site  Esselbach Storyteller CMS PHP Content Management and a 2ndary url bl.ah. That 2nd domain could just point straight back at the main domain so that it handles the shortening. So  http://bl.ah/agdg would point back to  http://www.blahblahblah.com/agdg and point to the main story. That is the way I could see doing it, or just have a script that runs at the secondary site to handle it all.

And to have functionality similar to bit.ly that keeps tracks of clicks etc would just be icing on the cake.

Many things that were originally part of the 2.1 series are already available in 2.0.3 and 2.0.4.

The most significant differences between the Contentteller 2.0.x and 2.1.x series are template and database changes. There are features that can't be backported to 2.0.x because of required database changes.

One of those features is the ability to choose a theme for a particular news story. For example, if you have a Linux news story you could choose now a Linux based template set just for that one story.

Another feature you won't see in 2.0.x are animated side boxes because of the required template modifications.

The Contentteller 2.0.x series will be still supported after the launch of 2.1. The current proposed end of the life for 2.0.x is 1st November 2011 (Pro) and 1st November 2013 (Business).

Philipp, can you give us a hint what we will get in 2.1 version?

The upcoming Contentteller 2.1 series have already Twitter integration. The current development version is using TinyURL to make urls shortener but I will look into bit.ly.