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Bitly

Bitly

A popular URL shortening site that condenses long URLs into short ones under the bit.ly domain (which happens to use the Libyan country code "ly." Users can also create a custom name as long as it has not been taken; for example, the Bitly link to a video of this product on YouTube is http://bit.ly/CDEhistory. See URL shortening.


Bitly Is Widely Used
A Bitly URL is relatively easy to remember and type into a browser.
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Other tenants based at the 139 Fifth Avenue building include technology company Bitly, Eva Scrivo Salon, and Verizon located on the ground and lower levels.
Tools like TinyURL <http://tinyurl.com/> and Bitly <https://bitly.com/> help change long URLs into short, manageable links that can easily be shared.
One is about Periscope, the other about Bitly. Before answering, I will have to Google Periscope and Bitly to see what they are.
Bitly has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) Cloud as its preferred cloud platform, the company said.
When one company gets stronger so do the rest of us." The statement said Pinterest Tumblr Twitter and Yahoo have been working on the program and new partners including Bitly and Dropbox.
It's a by invitation-only site during the test period, but Twitter, Dropbox, Bitly, Pinterest and Tumblr have signed on as partners.
Given the success of URL-shortening programs, like Bitly and TinyURL that take long web addresses and shorten them for the character limit, Twitter launches its own URL shortener: t.co.
Now barring some massive intervention, it seems certain" (read his article at bitly.com/new-math) We kid ourselves in thinking that installing solar panels and tolerating wind farms will make everything all right.
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