I sometimes feel like URL shorteners are some of the most understated tools in internet marketing, and there have been more than a few times that I wished I’d had someone share some advice on URL ...

The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

Viral videos are a great way to market your business, and YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing service on the Web. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is ...

Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links (especially long ones). There are ...

Shortening URLs is all the rage right now. The newest entrant is StumbleUpon with its Su.pr service which both shortens big links, and cross posts to its 8 million users. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in ...

Mac only: You've got no shortage of ways to quickly shorten URLs, like bookmarklets or text replacement apps, but most require mouse usage somewhere—and, as most Quicksilver addicts know, nothing is ...