Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links (especially long ones). There are ...

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 ...

Viral videos are a great way to market your business, and YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing service on the Web. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is ...

Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social networks don't accept URL strings ...

Other benefits to having your own custom short URL are things like consistent branding and increased link trust – no one likes clicking on random links, so knowing it comes from a trusted source goes ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

There are loads of extensions and bookmarklets that create shortened links from long URLs, but the bit.ly and j.mp services don't need them. Add them with a slash before the URL in your address bar, ...