Getting Started With URL Shorteners If you start using a URL shortener, you'll learn the ropes as you set up the tool and start making new links. It's all pretty easy.

URL shorteners such as Bitly, Ow.ly and Is.gd are a way of life on social media. The advantages are clear: reduced character counts and useful statistics. But these services come with two major ...

Before we shorten the URL, we will also need to check the length to make sure that it really needs shortening. If it's less than 20 characters, then we can just let it go through as-is.

In this open-source Python project tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fully functional URL shortener application using PyQt for the graphical user interface. Follow along to turn long URLs ...

How to Truncate the URL. Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social ...

Just when you thought the web couldn’t possibly fit any more, a new URL shortener is on the loose, this time however, it actually makes some sense. Inside Facebook have spotted Facebook ...

Instead of creating a branded URL shortener with Bit.ly, LinkedIn decided to develop its own application so it could tie it directly into LinkedIn’s own back-end, with high SLAs and data fidelity.

William & Mary Information Technology has developed an easy-to-use short URL generator that also provides some W&M branding, making it clear to your audiences that the link is "official". Use of this ...

Google's URL shortener just opened up to the public, with a standalone site. Launched last December, Google's Bit.ly competitor, Goo.gl can now be used for any links on the web. And Google ...