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 ...

In light of the near-shutdown of Tr.im--and the actual closing of URL shortening services like URLTea, Shurl.net, and Qurl.net--users of the URL shorteners still standing may wonder what's going to ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened its Website. Nambu, tr.im’s parent company, had announced last weekend that it was closing the ...

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 is continuing to add features to its service which have previously been served by third-party companies. The other day, Twitter announced their own photo sharing service, and now the company ...

An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate ...

In what we're hoping is the beginning of a trend, WordPress.com has announced a new built-in URL-shortening service for all of its hosted blogs. Now, when you create a post on your WordPress.com blog, ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

The Su.pr dashboard. Click the image for a larger view. StumbleUpon has launched a new URL shortening service known as su.pr. The site is currently an invite-only beta, but you can follow @stumbleupon ...