As I write the first draft of this post, the bloggers of the world are a-twitter with the ramifications of new shortened URL products being launched by Google and Facebook. Though neither will be ...

Bit.ly, a leading URL-shortener, unveiled its bit.ly Pro, a service aimed at businesses, Web publishers and bloggers, which will provide customized and branded short URLS. High-profile clients so far ...

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows ...

URL shortening services may seem trivial, but they’re a potential goldmine of information about what humans on the Internet, not automated bots, find valuable or at least interesting. Compared to, say ...

Link-shortening services like TinyURL have become nearly ubiquitous in space-restricted places like email, Twitter, and mobile sites—which is why it's odd it's taken so long for a similar service to ...

vb.ly screenshot, courtesy of our own violet.blue. Somehow, my desire to provide you with a simple link to my Google Voice how-to articles turned into a story of geopolitics, coalition warfare, Sharia ...

Although Tiny.url was the first URL shortening service back in 2002, several other competitors - all using ad revenue to pay for the facility - have entered the URL shortening marketplace. Bit.ly said ...

URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as “Bit.ly Now” internally, which will define the next stage of the company’s growth. The ...