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Facebook Vanity URLs Take Two

24 June 2009 by Guinevere, No Comments
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The first round of Facebook vanity URLs proved to be a huge success. Within minutes of the feature being made available, Mashable reported that over 200,000 usernames had been registered. If you didn’t pick up a URL the first night, head over to Facebook.com/username to register one now. But what if you were trying to [...]

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Happy Birthday from Offtopic

29 April 2009 by Guinevere, No Comments

I just received a happy birthday email from Offtopic.com — one of the largest forums on the internet. I hadn’t been to the website in months. Its very existence had slipped into the recesses of my mind. But today, they sent me a simple, automated email just wishing me a happy birthday. Setting up an [...]

8 Domain Name Ideas for People Named Sandi Jones

3 November 2008 by Guinevere, 2 Comments

Last week at the Geek Girl Dinner one of the points of discussion was about personal branding and the importance of owning your own domain name that is associated with you. One of the women in the group (Sandi Jones) brought up the difficulty of purchasing your own name as a domain if you have [...]

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