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.

At the moment, Bit.ly gives you real-time traffic data for every link you shorten. Ordinary people find this fun—you can immediately check to see how many people clicked on what you just sent out.

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 ...

Bit.ly will not only shorten any URL you give it, but it will also tell registered users how many people clicked on the bit.ly link you created, and, how many people used a bit.ly shortened link ...

Bit.ly, the web's most popular link shortening service (thanks in big part to Twitter's semi-official endorsement), has added the ability to quickly short-link pictures and other files through a ...

Bit.ly remains a powerful link-shortening service with over 4 billion unique URLs shortened.

Bit.ly Pro beta gives Websites, bloggers and news organizations custom domain names that easily identify the destination of shortened links.

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly is the latest company to suffer a security breach, and the company is warning users to take action immediately.

It is not clear how the new feature will affect bit.ly, the third-party link shortener Twitter currently uses as its default, but it sounds like that may change soon.

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.