Tag: URL SHORTENER

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Maybe you heard about how Libya deleted that sexy URL shortening site Vb.ly? (It was like Bit.ly for porn links, but conservative Libya owns the .ly domain and wasn't into all the boobs -- or the pic of the site creator drinking a beer.) Well, ...

Head on over to Goo.gl, and you'll find the new home of Google's URL-shortening service that launched in December. At that time, other Google products produced Goo.gl links, but there was no way for surfers to create their own Google shortened links. Now the service has opened its doors to everyone with the stated goal of providing "the stablest, most secure, and fastest URL shortener on the ...

The URL shortener market, which is undeniably overcrowded, is about to get a lot smaller. Yesterday, Evan Williams mentioned Twitter would be launching a dedicated URL-shortening service during a Q&A at the Chrip developer conference, effectively murdering an entire industry in cold blood. While URL shorteners have found some use outside of the popular micro-blogging service, it's clear that ...

You'd think the world had enough URL shortening services at this point -- TinyURL, Bit.ly, is.gd, twurl, tr.im, Digg, Facebook, Google, the New York Times -- it seems like everyone is getting down on downsizing. The GOP, seeing the latest trend sweeping across the series of tubes, decided now was the time to hop on the bandwagon and launch its own link shrinking service. GOP.AM sports an ...

With short-form publishing becoming more popular each day, people are frequently using URL-shortening services to make their posts full of content instead of cluttered with characters. When a new trend like this emerges, everybody wants a piece of the pie. That's why both Google and Facebook have recently introduced URL-shortening services. The Official Google Blog gives a rundown of the new ...

Links to cool stuff spread on Twitter like wildfire, and that's part of what makes the service so great. If somebody sees something interesting, they tweet it, their friends then pass it along, and within a few minutes it has spread across the whole of the Internet. The problem is that bad links can take advantage of that same system and spread just as quickly, a problem that Twitter is finally ...