Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more. With its ...

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

A worthwhile question that web developers are asking lately: what exactly can you do with URL shorteners, beyond just shortening URLs? Past innovations focused on statistical tracking (cli.gs) and ...

Google recently announced they will shut down their URL shortener, Goo.gl. Google will cease service for any new or anonymous users on April 13. Although existing users can continue to use the goo.gl ...

Usually when the CEO of a company steps down, there will be a big announcement about it. Sometimes CEO will even make a big statement, thanking everyone who he or she worked with over the years, like ...

According to the Bitly blog: In the week since our release, we’re already making adjustments, so that saving and shortening links in the new bitly is a whole lot easier. Now, when you paste a link ...

Bitly, the popular link management platform, was in a little bit of a rut in 2013. Though they were doing well, link shortening was fast becoming an impacted space, and just shortening links wasn’t ...

Bitly launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and ...

Peter Kafka covered media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast. Techland, like ...

Bitly, a popular service that allows users to create shortened or even customized URLs, and track how that shortened link is shared over time, issued a mysterious security update Thursday evening. In ...