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Facebook Vanity URLs Take Two

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Internet, Marketing, technology

Facebook wordmark 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 get a URL for one of your Facebook Pages and found that you couldn’t? In the first round, Facebook restricted the vanity URL feature to Pages with 1000 fans or more. If your group had 999 fans or less, you were out of luck… until now. This Sunday at midnight ET, Facebook will be opening the vanity URL feature to ALL pages, regardless of the number of fans.

The vanity URL feature is still for only usernames and Pages. Facebook Groups don’t yet have the option of getting one.

Mesh 08

// May 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // technology

Mesh Conference 2008 Today and tomorrow, I’m attending the Mesh Conference here in Toronto. I’ll actually be posting about the experiences over at my new blog which I’ve just launched. This blog we’re on has really turned into a personally focused blog and I missed writing about the industry I worked in. The solution was to start writing about new media again, but to give posts like that a home of their own.

Yes, I will still be posting here, but probably not about anything online. Those topics I’ll discuss over at aboutnewmedia.com. Please visit me there if the online world interests you too. One of the first things I’m doing there is giving away a book.

One last note: if you’re here at Mesh — please say hello! I’m on a discussion panel today at 1:30 called Video is Everywhere. It should be an interesting discussion.

Interactive Content Exchange

// March 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // life, technology

Interactive Content Exchange 2008 Yesterday evening, today and tomorrow, I’m attending the the Interactive Content Exchange or “ICE08″ conference.

If you want to follow along, I’ll be live blogging the event on Shift Edit which I’m beta testing for the developers (click here to follow). Shift Edit is like a rich-media Twitter. I love that you don’t need to create an account. I used my Facebook account to start Shifting right away.

I’ll post overall thoughts about the day at the end of today and tomorrow here.

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