Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...

For years, URL shorteners have been an easy way to share lengthy links on the internet. Rather than typing out a web address that is both ugly and seemingly endless, you can put it through a shortener ...

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jerry Brito, a policy wonk and web developer based in Washington, D.C. If you’re a serious or even occasional twitterer, you may have wondered what the ...