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, ...

URL shortening services may seem trivial, but they’re a potential goldmine of information about what humans on the Internet, not automated bots, find valuable or at least interesting. Compared to, say ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Bit.ly, the popular link shortening service, just announced its new HTML5 optimized mobile site that boasts more mobile-centric features and a cleaner interface. Like its regular site, the revamped ...

Little more than a week after Nambu Network said it was shutting down URL-shortener tr.im, and just days after the service was reactivated, its founder announced he would take the code open-source and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...