If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

Bitly is a link creating tool that allows you to shorten your URLs. Instead of having bitlinks, or shortened URLs, that are made up of random letters and numbers, Bitly gives you the option to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giving bit.ly a try, it certainly looks like it's got potential. After entering in a long URL, bit.ly spits out a short version that can be used to link to a Web page; bit.ly then provides a separate ...

It differentiates itself by allowing you to monetize the links you shorten. Yes, you can make money off of any link (not just your own) you send out on Twitter, or put in a post, etc. This works the ...

URL shortening services are ubiquitous these days so we tend to forget how these systems can be exploited if not properly secured. The latest example comes via an announcement that Cli.gs, the 4th ...

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