For social news and bookmarking services, 2009 has really been the tale of the customized URL shortener. Each of the three largest social sites (Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com) have ...

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 ...

Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...

Sharing long links over Facebook, X/Twitter, and other social sites can be a pain if the sites develop a technical slag. The best practice, therefore, is to shorten the URL that never expires. That ...

Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links. The service allows users to take any link and transform it into a shorter goo.gl ...

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Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about ...