Link shortening startup Bit.ly has said that it doesn’t just want to help share content on the Internet — it also wants to connect people to “the Web of things”. Today, the company announced a feature ...

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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, ...

People are dying in Tripoli,” Bit.ly investor John Borthwick snarled over the phone to The Observerthe other day. “Short URLs are People are dying in Tripoli,” Bit.ly investor John Borthwick snarled ...

If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

As you might remember from our coverage only a few days ago, NIC.ly (the Libyan domain registry) blocked the vb.ly domain for being a “sex friendly URL shortener”. That rose fear in many that one of ...