Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...

Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think so, and it’s now making its own Goo.gl service widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for ...

If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

While a number of you have probably already used the goo.gl shortener — and you’ve almost surely clicked a link from one — now you’ll be able to program with it into any application or site. According ...

Instead of condensing links to bit.ly, the new tool will see links shortened to become a Hope.ly link. When a Hope.ly link is clicked on, a banner-type ad will appear, reading “Someone wonderful ...

Bitly, a popular service that allows users to create shortened or even customized URLs, and track how that shortened link is shared over time, issued a mysterious security update Thursday evening. In ...

I sometimes feel like URL shorteners are some of the most understated tools in internet marketing, and there have been more than a few times that I wished I’d had someone share some advice on URL ...

Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...