Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...

As if to prove that nothing on the Internet is sacred, it turns out that even using URL shorteners can compromise your privacy and security. Found by security researcher Shubham Shah and Christina ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well ...

Bit.ly, my URL shortener of choice have kindly created a little Google gadget which makes it nice and easy to shorten URL’s you’re about to insert into a gmail email. This keeps your emails nice and ...

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 ...