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Url shortening announcements are like buses. You wait for ages then three come along at once. We have already brought you news of Google’s url shortening service ...

As I write the first draft of this post, the bloggers of the world are a-twitter with the ramifications of new shortened URL products being launched by Google and Facebook. Though neither will be ...

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 ...

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows ...

Bit.ly, a leading URL-shortener, unveiled its bit.ly Pro, a service aimed at businesses, Web publishers and bloggers, which will provide customized and branded short URLS. High-profile clients so far ...

Although Tiny.url was the first URL shortening service back in 2002, several other competitors - all using ad revenue to pay for the facility - have entered the URL shortening marketplace. Bit.ly said ...

I'm a fan of Bit.ly short URL's, but since I have temporality, maybe even permanently, switched over to the Android mobile platform, I've had concerns, scratch that…trying to using the Bit.ly mobile ...