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 ...

Little more than a week after Nambu Network said it would shutter its URL-shortener tr.im, and just days after the service was reactivated, its founder now says he will take the code open-source and ...

Instead of condensing links to bit.ly, the new tool will see links shortened to become a Hope.ly link. When a Hope.ly link is clicked on, a banner-type ad will appear, reading “Someone wonderful ...