Normally, when you use Twitter’s search service, you can avoid clicking shortened URLs blindly – which is a security risk – by expanding them and taking a look at where they’ll be taking you exactly.

Link-shortening service Bit.ly has unveiled a new link-bundling feature that allows you to group multiple links -- up to 100 -- on a single page and share that page with your friends with a single ...

When the world's 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they're routed through bit.ly's URL shortening service, like sands through an hourglass. By channeling ...

Well, that was fast. No more than a day or two after Twitter switched over to bit.ly as its default link shortener (from TinyURL), bit.ly is now the most popular URL shortening service. According to ...

While the URL shortening market definitely seems a little saturated there's still room for innovation. Fur.ly is a URL shortening service that bundles multiple URLs together for easy sharing. The ...

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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 ...

You’ve seen them floating around on the Web. Billions of them are sent out each month. They’re the .ly url shorteners — bit.ly, ht.ly, ow.ly — that shrink unwieldy Web addresses into bite-size urls ...

On Monday, Nambu announced that it’s shutting down its popular URL-shortening service, Tr.im. “Users will not pay for URL shortening, and why should they?” the company explained in a blog post ...

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 ...