What's the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

Over the past few years, Google has slowly been transitioning its apps and services to a material design UI. Now Google has applied these changes to the Goo.gl URL shortener. The new and improved ...

Your own URL is better than a generic bit.ly If you're hosting a URL shortener on your own server with your own domain, then you can have a personal touch with every URL that you share with others ...

It must have been World URL Shortener Day yesterday. First came the news that Facebook has been testing a URL shortener, fb.me. Then Google announced the arrival of Goo.gl. And though it wasn't as ...

Creating your own shortener enables you to give your brand new exposure. For example, journalists on Twitter can use their news site’s URL shortener to help extend the site’s brand.

Microsoft included the 1drv.ms URL shortening service in its OneDrive cloud storage service and a similar service (binged.it) for Bing Maps—"branded" domains of the bit.ly domain shortening service.

shorturl = urllib2.urlopen(apiurl).read() We have to use urllib.urlencode on the full URL so that is.gd can handle it properly. Then we use urllib2.urlopen to request the shortened version from is.gd.