Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

Are you having trouble promoting a product or cause without being overly in-your-face to followers? Sure, you might be passionate about clean water in Africa or Lady Gaga but not all day everyday.

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...