Tr.im, a popular URL shortening service, announced over the weekend that it is discontinuing its operations. The shutdown could mean that shortened links contained in hundreds of thousands of Twitter ...

URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are ...

Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened its Website. Nambu, tr.im’s parent company, had announced last weekend that it was closing the ...

URL shortening services like TinyURL or Bitly have long become an essential part of the modern web, and are popular enough that even Google killed off their own already. Creating your own shortener is ...

VeriSign has claimed it will not resurrect its URL-typo redirection service, after it was awarded a patent for the idea. The patent, which was first applied for in 2000, was awarded to VeriSign in ...

Hilary Mason is the chief scientist at Bitly, the URL redirection service with real-time tracking. This means she gets to learn a lot about user habits and how people share and consume links online.

VeriSign’s launch last week of a controversial URL-redirection service has created such a backlash and so many headaches for network managers that workarounds already are surfacing, and mounting ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened ...