The options for shortening long URL’s to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL’s are easier to send ...

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 ...

The popular URL shortening service Tr.im has announced it is shutting down. That means, just as critics of URL shortening services predicted, a whole lot of shortened links are about to disappear in a ...

Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them. Twitter’s dramatic rise has helped ignite an ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Amazon and Twitter are the latest companies to offer their own URL shortening services, joining a crowded playing field of entrants. While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and ...

The Su.pr dashboard. Click the image for a larger view. StumbleUpon has launched a new URL shortening service known as su.pr. The site is currently an invite-only beta, but you can follow @stumbleupon ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...