Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The options for shortening long URL’s to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL’s are easier to send ...

Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Twitter in an email said it would begin logging all URLs that pass through its service as it delves more into link tracking. In a nutshell, Twitter could become more competitive to link shortening ...

Url shortening announcements are like buses. You wait for ages then three come along at once. We have already brought you news of Google’s url shortening service and the Facebook solution, now Bit.ly, ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Amazon and Twitter are the latest companies to offer their own URL shortening services, joining a crowded playing field of entrants. While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and ...

Just when you thought the web couldn’t possibly fit any more, a new URL shortener is on the loose, this time however, it actually makes some sense. Inside Facebook have spotted Facebook automatically ...

URL shortening services are a dime a dozen, and despite wishes for them to vanish (with good reason) they’re here to stay and more popular than ever given the abundance of social services that thrive ...

Earlier today I covered two new URL shortening services, UnHub and LNK.by, the latest additions to the plethora of basic web applications that many people are growing accustomed to for sharing links ...