URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won't all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own ...

URL shorteners have become a ubiquitous presence on the web, largely due to the rise of Twitter. Tinyurl, Bit.ly and the like have come along to make those ugly long URLs look nice and neat in your ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...