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Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

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 ...

Link shortening startup Bit.ly has said that it doesn’t just want to help share content on the Internet — it also wants to connect people to “the Web of things”. Today, the company announced a feature ...

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 ...

In a world where everything is being jammed into 140 characters or less, shorter is better. That goes double (or is it half?) for lengthy URLs. So-called URL shortening services are increasingly ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...