Google has recently released an API for Goo.gl which allows users to integrate Google’s URL shortener in their web applications, blogs or websites.

If you have a sharing habit, Shareaholic is an addon you need to try. It’s a lot easier than going through a twelve step program to cure your addiction.

This free tool makes sharing stuff online, as easy as select, drag and drop. If you’ve ever used Droplr on a Mac, you’ll be happy to see you can use it on a PC now.

Pingdom tests puts Google’s Goo.gl URL shortener as the fastest URL shortener. Goo.gl rival Bit.ly is 3 times slower than Google’s URL shortener.

Bit.ly recently launched an option to generate QR codes from shortened URLs. They also take a Potshot at Google with their new QR Code feature.

Create QR Codes for your website or magazine using Goo.gl. Easy to create QR Codes in a single click.

Google announced that they have now made Goo.gl URL shortener public allowing users to create short URLs and track stats for them.

Twitter will use a t.co link shortener into status updates and this feature will be used to prevent phishing scams. It will be available in the Twitter API soon.

Flickr has a url shortener. Facebook has a url shortener. And so does Google. Who’s next? Welcome YouTube to the club, please.

Twitter CEO Evan Williams just posted a photograph on his Twitter timeline with the tweet “Miles w/bit.ly bear”. Is this a potshot at Google and Facebook’s URL shortening service or just an assurance to Bit.ly that Twitter are still behind them.

Google has announced a new URL shortening service called Goo.gl and Facebook have their secret URL shortening service fb.me under testing.

Unhid is a useful website that can be used to reveal the original destination of a shortened link. They also have a browser bookmarklet that checks every click on a shortened link for the original url.

WordPress users, you misery of choosing between a good URL shortening service is now over. The WordPress team has released a new shortening service in the form of WP.me, this will be used across all the current WordPress.com services.

The popularity of tr.im grew immensely after their announcement to shut shop and they have now decided to resurrect the service and run it indefinitely.

Su.pr the URL shortening service created by the folks behind the social networking and sharing site StumbleUpon has finally gone public after a long period of closed beta testing.