TinyURL is an online URL shortener service. It takes a long link that may be many dozens of characters in length, and it turns it into a relatively tiny link. The shorter link is easier to handle, but ...

The website he created in 2002, TinyURL.com, gets an impressive 1 billion hits a month, but Blaine Web developer Kevin Gilbertson would rather talk about riding his unicycle.

Like using TinyURL a lot? Check out this Firefox extension that automatically creates a TinyURL for whichever site you're on and copies it to your clipboard. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

Sending URLs—to funny sites, entertaining videos, or important information—via email has become almost a national pastime; who hasn’t sent someone to a Web site? This simple task has dramatically ...

The Register today ran a story about the phishing attack spread by the Google Talk instant messaging system, which uses TinyURL to conceal the real name of the link. John Leyden's story (quoting ...

Further to our previous blog about the use of TinyURL to obscure malicious links, a family member drew my attention to a problem she was having with the TinyURL site. Every time she tried to access a ...