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 ...

There is a simple rule on the Internet when it comes to passing links around: the easier it is to share links, the more links will be shared. Bit.ly and other URL shorteners proved this with their ...

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 ...

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, ...

Earlier today we wrote about the Justin Bieber URL shortener Bieber.ly, which had the dubious distinction of shortening long URLs to the shorter and more catchy Bieber.ly. About 22 hours after the ...

URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are ...

If you're looking to share URLs with people, but don't necessarily want the whole world aware of what's behind those links, Trick.ly can add a layer of privacy to your URL shortening habits.

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