Certain social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, allow users to use “vanity URLs” that create a direct link to the user’s profile. For ...

What’s in a name? Everything. One of the most important branding assets your business can own in today’s digital age are your vanity URLs. Through personalized vanity URLs, you can establish your ...

Despite its popularity, Facebook has several conspicuous usability issues. One that has long bugged me is how ugly the URLs of Facebook user profiles are. Here’s ...

Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook's more than 200 million users will be able to personalize the URLs for their profiles, the company announced Tuesday. By rolling out so-called ...

When you're creating a URL, context is everything. The URL you create for a personal blog would be different from your business website's URL. When you use a subdomain to create a custom vanity URL, ...

Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start – users love vanity URLs. When you tell someone your MySpace page, you just say myspace.com ...

Because www.wm.edu/offices/communityvalues/sarp/studenthandbook/ won't fit on a postcard. Good information architecture does not necessarily translate to simple URLs ...

The ability of Google to reclaim any custom name precedes this clause, and it makes sense for the Google+ Team to highlight that power at the outset of the custom URL project. But offering a free hit ...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to stay up past midnight to try to grab a vanity URL on Facebook. After all, I have a 2-year-old who would certainly be waking me up bright ...