A worthwhile question that web developers are asking lately: what exactly can you do with URL shorteners, beyond just shortening URLs? Past innovations focused on statistical tracking (cli.gs) and ...

Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more. With its ...

Usually when the CEO of a company steps down, there will be a big announcement about it. Sometimes CEO will even make a big statement, thanking everyone who he or she worked with over the years, like ...

In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...

Marketing folks love click stats, and tiny URLs spread clicks across numerous spaces in social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter and others already have their respective shortening service. URL ...

This post has been corrected from the original. See fifth paragraph. Short URL powerhouse Bitly is baking into its Web service the Yfrog picture-sharing service made by Imageshack. Yfrog competes with ...

Bitly launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and ...