For social news and bookmarking services, 2009 has really been the tale of the customized URL shortener. Each of the three largest social sites (Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com) have ...

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 ...

Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...

Some Twitter users are unable to send links in Direct Mentions (DMs) right now. Twitter is aware of the problem, but till they roll out a fix, you can use a URL shortening service to bypass the ...

Twitter rolled out an automatic link shortening feature on Tuesday that enables users to paste long URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) directly into messages sent through its microblogging website, ...

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

URL shortening services are ubiquitous these days so we tend to forget how these systems can be exploited if not properly secured. The latest example comes via an announcement that Cli.gs, the 4th ...

Two security researchers have published research exposing the potential privacy problems connected to using Web address shortening services. When used to share data protected by credentials included ...

For most of us, April 30 was just another day. But if you’re a security expert, you may recall that it was the day that nearly 20 percent of the hundreds of millions of spam emails clogging the Web ...