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URL shortening services may seem trivial, but they’re a potential goldmine of information about what humans on the Internet, not automated bots, find valuable or at least interesting. Compared to, say ...

Link shortening service Bit.ly has unveiled a new link bundling feature that allows you to group multiple links – up to 100 – on a single page and share that page with your friends with a single short ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

Bit.ly, my URL shortener of choice have kindly created a little Google gadget which makes it nice and easy to shorten URL’s you’re about to insert into a gmail email. This keeps your emails nice and ...

Instead of condensing links to bit.ly, the new tool will see links shortened to become a Hope.ly link. When a Hope.ly link is clicked on, a banner-type ad will appear, reading “Someone wonderful ...

QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Apparently so. During the first half of 2022, Bit.ly saw a 152% ...

Url shortening announcements are like buses. You wait for ages then three come along at once. We have already brought you news of Google’s url shortening service and the Facebook solution, now Bit.ly, ...