Normally, when you use Twitter’s search service, you can avoid clicking shortened URLs blindly – which is a security risk – by expanding them and taking a look at where they’ll be taking you exactly.

You’ve seen them floating around on the Web. Billions of them are sent out each month. They’re the .ly url shorteners — bit.ly, ht.ly, ow.ly — that shrink unwieldy Web addresses into bite-size urls ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly has unveiled a new link-bundling feature that allows you to group multiple links -- up to 100 -- on a single page and share that page with your friends with a single ...

August 4, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google While the URL shortening market definitely seems a little saturated there's still room for innovation. Fur.ly is ...

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Doc Brown stole some plutonium from some Libyans in 1985, and ever since the Middle Eastern country has been trying to exact revenge. Its latest act of geek vengeance is to shut down URL-shortening ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

Well, that was fast. No more than a day or two after Twitter switched over to bit.ly as its default link shortener (from TinyURL), bit.ly is now the most popular URL shortening service. According to ...

Technically Philly parent company Technically Media is excited to announce Ph.ly, a new URL shortener dedicated specifically to Philadelphia links and stories. In one month of existence in soft launch ...