With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly, which is the default shortener ...

The popular link shortening service Bit.ly (which has billions of clicks on its links per month) has just announced that it will allow users to shorten links and automatically turn those links in to ...

Screenshot of vb.ly on its launch day. Photo by violet.blue on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Used with permission. Over the years Libya has been notorious for many ...