To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com? This led to all kinds of trouble—a ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well ...

If you're an Amazon.com Inc. affiliate, you may notice that your affiliate links are large blocks of text that could be too cumbersome for you and your customers. This is especially noticeable if you ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

When I first started on the BeatBlogging.org project almost three years ago, very few journalists and news organizations were using social media. In fact, you were considered kind of strange if you ...

I tweeted that article using Bit.ly, a URL shortener that allows me to track how many people clicked on the link I tweeted: The screenshot shows that Bit.ly had seen 343 total clicks to that URL ...

Anyone who’s used a link shortener has probably considered their vulnerability. It’s no big deal when you’re just bookmarking a blog post, but a little more troubling when you’re shortening directions ...

Question: How are you using social data to grow your business or get special customer insights? Question by: Ashley "AddThis makes it quick and easy to add share buttons to your site to all the common ...