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 ...

Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

URL shorteners spit out links that are easier to share. More importantly, they let small businesses track marketing campaigns and other incoming traffic. Here are four top URL shorteners that can help ...

Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened its Website. Nambu, tr.im’s parent company, had announced last weekend that it was closing the ...

Twitter in an email said it would begin logging all URLs that pass through its service as it delves more into link tracking. In a nutshell, Twitter could become more competitive to link shortening ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

In what we're hoping is the beginning of a trend, WordPress.com has announced a new built-in URL-shortening service for all of its hosted blogs. Now, when you create a post on your WordPress.com blog, ...

Tr.im, the popular URL-shortening service for Twitter and other social networks has found a new lease on life. After announcing it would shut down by the end of the year, the team behind Tr.im has ...