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Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

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 ...

If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think so, and it’s now making its own Goo.gl service widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for ...

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 ...

Vb.ly, an URL shortener that didn't turn away risque Web addresses, falls victim to a judgment that it violated Libyan law. What's that mean for Bit.ly? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Another hole is about to be filled in Twitter’s product features. CEO Evan Williams just confirmed plans to launch its own link shortener on stage during the final Q&A session at Chirp. HE noted that ...

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 ...

It must have been World URL Shortener Day yesterday. First came the news that Facebook has been testing a URL shortener, fb.me. Then Google announced the arrival of Goo.gl. And though it wasn't as ...