When users click on the shortened URL created by d0z.me, an embedded iframe — part of an HTML document — opens with the shortened links, while a malicious piece of Javascript software "runs in the ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...

The Web is full of short URLs such as bit.ly/cwd2hp. The products of URL-shortening services–bit.ly, Tiny URL, and others–these cryptic URLs appear on social networking sites such as Twitter–and ...

Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...