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Google is continuing to revamp its sites. It announced that a new beautiful Google design was going to use across its dozens of products and sites and the roll-out has been progressing.
The latest site to get a redesign is the Google URL shortener goo.gl. The site has been around for more than a year now and, while ... |
7 March 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Bit.ly is finally starting to leverage the power of the huge amounts of data that pass through the service every day. Bit.ly is popular enough to have a rather good idea of what links are popular, which are viral and, more importantly, which will be in the short term future.
Because that's what Bit.ly's ... |
14 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it has started wrapping all links on the site with its own t.co URL shortener. This means that any link, regardless of length, will be going through t.co, there will be no more direct links to anything else inside Twitter messages.Twitter has been working towards this for quite a while and ... |
11 October 2011
12:11 GMT |
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As announced in July, Google plans to use its newly-implemented URL shortener exclusively for its websites and services, so they have recently integrated g.co functionality within Google Maps.Over time, Google Maps has grown to be a very popular product that is used by millions of people on a daily basis and which r... |
23 August 2011
16:24 GMT |
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Google has announced that it has acquired the g.co domain name which it will use to link to Google websites and services exclusively. The new URL shortener will live alongside goo.gl, but will only be available for Google official business.
"In the world of URLs, bigger is not always better. In 2009, we helped shr... |
19 July 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Google+ is in the early stages, so bugs, missing features and quirks are understandable. Early adopters can live without a lot of things, just so they can get the thrill of a new thing. But one thing they can't and shouldn't live without is vanity URLs for their accounts.What good is a Google+ account if al... |
5 July 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Bitly is making its Pro service free for everyone and is integrating the paid features into the regular Bitly account. This means that you can now add your own custom short domain and use that for all of your link, while the backend service and analytics are still served by Bitly. "To make our whitelabel service avai... |
16 June 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Twitter is reintroducing a feature it dropped when it upgraded to the New Twitter, automated link shortening. Now, when you add an URL to your tweets, it will automatically be shortened to take up only 19 characters. You can also use your preferred URL shortener, if you want detailed analytics for example."We’v... |
8 June 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Spammers have began setting up their own URL shortening services in order to hide spam links and make them more resilient to takedowns.The practice of using short URLs in spam is not new and has registered ups and downs over the past couple of years.There was a spike of short URL spam during the last months of 2010, ... |
24 May 2011
13:18 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the prominent URL-shrinking site, has announced that it's gotten a new CEO, Peter Stern, a known web entrepreneur. The service has gotten its first CEO, in fact, since there was no one at the company filling in the position full time until now. Started as a project of Betaworks, Bit.ly has evolved to the... |
16 May 2011
11:30 GMT |
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Google is enhancing its URL shortener service goo.gl with a couple of heavily requested features. It's now easier to copy the shortened URL since it is automatically selected. You can also remove shortened links from your dashboard if you don't want a particular one showing up."Since we launched our URL sho... |
14 April 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The URL shortener fad has gone away, which is actually good news for any serious URL shortener, now they can get down to business and provide the service they're meant to without all of the hype. Bit.ly, still the largest shortener out there, is introducing a brand new mobile site for all those 'smart'... |
18 March 2011
12:46 GMT |
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Google's URL shortener is continuing its expansion with the launch of an API to enable third-parties to incorporate the service into their apps or websites. This should give a further boost to Goo.gl which is already considered one of the most stable shorteners out there, not in the least because it's backe... |
11 January 2011
06:27 GMT |
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In order to outline the dangers of implicitly trusting shortened URLs, a student has launched a service which generates links that take users to their destination, but also hijack their browsers for DDoS.Called d0z.me, the service is the creation of Ben Schmidt (@supernothing307), a computer science major at Universi... |
21 December 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Bit.ly is launching what is a way the antithesis of its product, a way for bundling multiple links and sharing them via the same short link. That short link will direct users to a Bit.ly landing page which will display excerpts of the pages and even image previews, but will not redirect users to any of the bundled li... |
16 November 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Bit.ly is still the most popular URL shortener on Twitter, according to an analysis of over 1.5 million tweets. Twitpic.com, the photo sharing platform, is the second most popular domain on the microblogging site.Cloud security firm Zscaler gathered 1.5 million links over a period of a few months to determine how man... |
29 October 2010
12:08 GMT |
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Bit.ly remains the most popular URL shortening service out there, despite not being the default one on Twitter anymore. While there is plenty of competition, bit.ly manages to stay ahead, with help from features like the new QR codes for shortened links. QR codes come in really handy for mobile devices and since smar... |
13 October 2010
13:50 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the largest URL shortener on the web, has announced that it closed a series B round of funding totaling $10 million. The round was led by RRE Ventures and AOL Ventures as well as existing investors contributed. Eric Wiesen, General Partner at RRE, will be joining the bit.ly board."We are excited to announce t... |
8 October 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Google has just upgraded its URL shortener it unveiled quite a few months ago. The service had only been available in the Google Toolbar and via Google services, but it is now open to anyone wanting a shorter link. URL shorteners don't really get as much attention as a year ago when it seemed that one launched e... |
1 October 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Twitter has made an expected announcement, it will be introducing its own URL-shortening service. What’s more, the new service will be used all the time, regardless of whether a link is already shortened with a third-party service. Twitter’s URL shortener will use the t.co domain and will eventually be ro... |
9 June 2010
05:13 GMT |
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URL shorteners were a very hot trend last year with the explosion of Twitter, but, like any other hype-driven movement, it died off eventually. Still, that’s not to say there’s no money to be made from these services, just not enough to sustain hundreds of competitors. Bit.ly is one of the few success sto... |
4 June 2010
07:01 GMT |
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URL shorteners are a dime a dozen these days, so launching a new one seems like an exercise in futility. BitDefender thinks it brings enough to the table to warrant a try. The security software maker has launched Saf.li, a URL shortener with a twist, it adds security to the mix of regular features. Any link shortened... |
6 May 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Despite the recent troubles, it’s still a pretty great time to build a service based on or catering to Twitter. A great example of this is bit.ly, Twitter’s ‘official’ URL shortener. The service just keeps on growing and posted record numbers again in March. And the service is about to get eve... |
14 April 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Google is just one of the big proponents of QR codes, two-dimensional bar codes that come in quite handy on mobile devices, but the technology is still not very popular in the US, or anywhere outside of Japan, really. That isn't stopping anyone, though, and Google has added a very neat trick to its URL-shortenin... |
8 April 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Social mobile app directory Appolicious is expanding the range of applications it has released on the market with the addition of a Facebook App, a Twicker ad model, and an Appo.me URL Shortener. The company has just released an iPhone app, after raising $1.5 million in funding, and offers new applications for those... |
5 March 2010
10:56 GMT |
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After tens of startups, Facebook, Google and even YouTube launched their own URL shorteners, the whole frenzy seems to have died down. After all, Bit.ly still dominates the market, basically undisputed, despite the tens of competitors and it doesn't even make that much money with it. But if the URL shortener mar... |
19 February 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Bit.ly is starting to take advantage of its position of market leader in URL shortening services. The company has been consolidating its position and has been adding new analytics tools and other features, but may finally start earning some real money now that its paid Bit.ly Pro service has been made available to a... |
8 February 2010
09:14 GMT |
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The URL shortener 'wars' have quieted down lately and everyone was getting accustomed to Bit.ly's unchallenged dominance in the space. With close to 80 percent market share a few months ago and still enjoying its position as the default shortener on twitter.com, the outcome seemed more than clear. The... |
7 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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With both Google and Facebook taking swipes at it and invading its home territory, even if with veiled intentions, it didn't take long for Bit.ly, the biggest name in URL shorteners at the moment and undisputed market leader, to respond. Just as Facebook was revealed to be testing Fb.me and Google introduced Go... |
15 December 2009
04:32 GMT |
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The URL shortener market just got a couple of big disruptions as possibly the two most powerful players in the web at the moment, Google and Facebook, have entered the market with their own URL shorteners. Facebook's approach is a rather cautious one, its shortener kicks in automatically only on the mobile site... |
15 December 2009
04:01 GMT |
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It's been a great year for Twitter which means it's been a great year for services built to cater to it, but the biggest being URL shorteners which, at one point, were popping up left and right. Things have quieted down a bit, after a few public failures, and Bit.ly settled into the role of undisputed mark... |
15 December 2009
03:11 GMT |
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For a while, as Twitter was taking off, URL shorteners were all the rage all of a sudden. New services were popping up left and right to the point where saying the market was saturated was an understatement. Soon enough, Bit.ly became the de facto URL shortener after Twitter chose it as the default service for the si... |
14 November 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Last summer URL shortener Tr.im made quite a few waves when it announced that the service would be shut down by the year's end due to lack of any perspective revenue model. The response, both from the press but also from the users, made Nambu Networks, the company that owns Tr.im, reconsider the closure and afte... |
16 September 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Despite a crowded market for URL shorteners, the “war” was pretty much over before it started, at least with the way things stand now. By being the default URL shortener on Twitter, Bit.ly enjoys a solid lead over any other competing service with more than 70 percent market share.Still, this isn't st... |
5 September 2009
06:03 GMT |
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The web may be a place for a lot of innovation but most of the times it's trends not needs that aid the creation of new products or services. One big trend at the moment is of course Twitter, the microblogging phenomenon that has taken the world, or at least the media, by storm in recent months. Another related ... |
17 August 2009
07:54 GMT |
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The recent news surrounding the Tr.im closure had quite a few worried about the future of their shortened links. While millions of links are shared using this type of services every day there is no guarantee that the links will still work tomorrow or next year. Fortunately, in light of the concerns raised, some URL s... |
14 August 2009
12:02 GMT |
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Nambu Networks does seem to have a knack for the dramatic. Just days after closing down its URL shortening service Tr.im and making quite a stir with its veiled accusations of monopoly, which have some solid points, the site is now back up and running “indefinitely” due to “popular response.” ... |
12 August 2009
02:38 GMT |
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It didn't take long for solutions to be proposed after the announcement of the URL shortening service Tr.im's shutdown. Bit.ly, the reason why it was closing in the first place, has approached Nambu Networks, Tr.im's parent company, inviting it to join the 301works project, which aims to be an open arc... |
11 August 2009
04:58 GMT |
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It looks like Digg may be getting what it seems to want the most as the site has seen a strong growth in audience in the past several months, adding 5 million unique visitors in just four months. Spurred by some of the sometimes not so popular changes, the numbers keep on rising, which can only be a good thing for a ... |
10 August 2009
04:20 GMT |
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It was bound to happen sooner or later; with the sheer number of URL shorteners out there, Tr.im is shutting down. After failing to achieve the popularity that would guarantee it a revenue, or at least more funding, the service has thrown down the gauntlet saying it can't compete with Bit.ly, the shortening serv... |
10 August 2009
02:33 GMT |
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A couple of days ago Digg decided to shoot itself in the foot, again, by changing how the already controversial Diggbar worked. The service, first introduced as a URL shortener, now redirected users to a Digg page rather than to the underlying link it was originally meant to. The behavior also changed for all of the ... |
22 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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URL shorteners are a very popular business right now, with everyone from unknown startups to established web companies launching their own services. Some are better than others but overall they have pretty much the same functionality. Digg, the popular social link aggregator, has launched its own service, Diggbar, in... |
20 July 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Announced a month ago, Su.pr, the new URL shortening service from StumbleUpon, the web site discovery service, has just emerged from private beta and has been made available to the public. Su.pr comes with the usual features most URL shorteners, of which there is no short supply, sport these days, but its ties with S... |
9 July 2009
08:33 GMT |
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URL shortening services have been around for years but it wasn't until Twitter exploded onto the scene that people found a real use for them. And since then there have been a myriad of new services launched, offering much of the same functionality. Now StumbleUpon has also announced a similar product, Su.pr, whi... |
10 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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