What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

Technically Philly parent company Technically Media is excited to announce Ph.ly, a new URL shortener dedicated specifically to Philadelphia links and stories. In one month of existence in soft launch ...

Finding a way to climb up in PageRank without spending a ton of money is good for any small business. While URL shorteners have been around for many years, marketing experts say the manner in which ...

What do you do? Well, that one is probably safe, as it uses YouTube’s own URL shortener. But what about all those other shortened URLS you see in emails, on Twitter and everywhere else? They could ...

URL shortening services are widely used on the desktop in microblogging clients. In this tutorial we will show you how to make a GTK+ textbox automatically shorten ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

When I first saw a shortened URL I was naturally suspicious. Working seven years for a security startup will do that to you. Though it hasn’t become a major security threat, yet, I think that ...

When you post on Twitter, you only have 140 characters to say what you need to say -- every letter, number and space counts. If you're sharing a link to a website, a long URL leaves you little to no ...