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10. June 2009 | 00:21Facebook vanity URLs coming this weekend
Let the land grab begin: At midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook members will be given the option to customize the URLs to their profiles. (News Source: CNET - 21:29:18)
Facebook is Getting Vanity URLs: Get Yours on Saturday at 12:01am EDT
We heard rumors about this for at least the last couple of weeks, but today, Facebook finally announced that it will allow users to pick and choose their own vanity URLs. Instead of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=432123451 , you will now be able to pick something like http://www.facebook.com/ihazvanityurl as your URL. Facebook will open this new feature up at 12:01am EDT on Saturday … (News Source: ReadWriteWeb - 20:24:10)
Facebook to Launch Vanity URLs for All
The vanity URL is an important aspect of most social media websites. Being able to choose the URL for your social profile (i.e. Twitter.com/BenParr ) not only makes it easy to share with others, but helps you claim a little piece of social media space as your own. While Twitter and MySpace provide vanity URLs for all profiles, Facebook does not. Facebook’s been experimenting with the vanity URL … (News Source: Mashable - 19:40:42)
Unshrinking Shortened Web Links
Social networking are contributing to an explosion in the number of services that help people convert long URLs into tiny Web links. URL shrinking services are especially useful on sites that place a premium on brevity — such as Twitter , which limits tweets to 140 characters. But few online… (News Source: Washington Post - 11:11:47)
StumbleUpon’s URL shortener Su.pr impresses [invites]
Shortening URLs is all the rage right now. The newest entrant is StumbleUpon with its Su.pr service which both shortens big links, and cross posts to its 8 million users. (News Source: CNET - 19:58:38)
Facebook to launch vanity URLs - because that’s really what we need
Do I really need a vanity URL for my Facebook presence? Apparently so. Starting this weekend - Saturday at 12:01 am ET, to be exact - Facebook is allowing users to assign a name to the tail end of the URL that comes up for their pages, replacing the random number that appears there. (Statement) Hmmm. Should I make a mad rush at that time to grab “samdiaz” before other people in the world with my … (News Source: ZDNet - 20:47:32)
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Unshrinking Shortened Web Links
Social networking are contributing to an explosion in the number of services that help people convert long URLs into tiny Web links. URL shrinking services are especially useful on sites that place a premium on brevity — such as Twitter, which limits tweets to 140 characters. But few online communities have made it easy for users to tell where the shortened links will take them, a reality that … (News Source: Washington Post - 11:03:59)
Web services shrink URLs
You’ve got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don’t want to waste half of it on a supersized link to your latest YouTube obsession. There’s an increasingly popular quick fix: a free URL shortener. On one of these Web sites, you can plug in a long Internet address, known as a URL, and it will assign you a much shorter one that is easier to post in e-mails, on Twitter, Facebook or … (News Source: The Washington Times - 08:48:39)
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