Go.USA.gov lets registered federal employees convert long government Web-page addresses into short URLs that can fit into a Twitter-size message. First there was TinyURL. Then came more than 100 other ...

Sharing long links over Facebook, X/Twitter, and other social sites can be a pain if the sites develop a technical slag. The best practice, therefore, is to shorten the URL that never expires. That ...

URL shortening services like TinyURL, bit.ly and is.gd have increasingly become part of many computer users’ everyday lives in the last year or so, with the surge in popularity of micro-blogging ...

Eric Woodward, creator of the short URL service Tr.im, painted his product into a corner when he announced first, that he was going to take it offline, and then a few days later that he wasn't. Nobody ...