The popular link shortening service Bit.ly (which has billions of clicks on its links per month) has just announced that it will allow users to shorten links and automatically turn those links in to ...

With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly, which is the default shortener ...

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 ...