With the launch of FB.ME, Facebook’s new URL shortener .ME domain is helping the world’s largest social network save its more than 350 million users valuable digits in a world where every character counts. Used as the Facebook shortener on their mobile interface it automatically shortens a mobile link (for ex. an m.facebook.com link) to FB.ME link. The result? Millions of FB.ME links shared on Twitter and other social network applications. This is clearly another confirmation of the intrinsic value of the extension’s personalized branding and ability to instantly create a ‘call to action’ using minimal characters and maximum impact.
Another feature of the shortener is the ability to take you straight to the Facebook username. For example, the short URL fb.me/dotme will take you to dotME’s fan page. Once there why not join the group!
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Tags: .ME domain, call to action, dotme, Facebook shortener, Facebook username, fb.me, fb.me/dotme, personalized branding, Social Network, url shortener
Unlike conventional URL shorteners, “That Is.Me”, a new social platform, provides web addresses that read as slogans or complete sentences. It went live in earlier 2010 and has dozen, if not hundreds, of other jingling names in the pipeline ready to be released as soon as the demand catches up. With “That Is.Me”, it is now possible to have Internet sites with addresses like thatis.me/johnny or london.thatis.me. On top of these nice and catchy URLs, “That Is.Me” also offers web templates that consolidate multiple user profiles and web sites on one single page. For instance, “Frames” theme will load all user’s sites into one page and make switching between them as easy as an instant click on the tabbed menu.
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Fresh off the acquisition of AppVee, social mobile app directory Appolicious is releasing a few new features including an Appo.me, URL shortener for links to apps. Appo.me gives the ability to easily create, grab and share a shortened URL that links directly to an app. You simple type in the name of an iPhone app and Appo.me automatically completes the app name and will give you a shortened URL for the link to the app in the iTunes store and its landing page on Appolicious’ directory.
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URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways:
- WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
- Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
- These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
- It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
- The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
- WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.
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