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 ...

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 ...

A vanity URL is a Web address that contains the name of a user or product. On Facebook, for example, John Smith's vanity URL could be facebook.com/johnsmith. Your ...

Here's the newest reason for companies in social media not to make money: because their competitors don't, so they shouldn't either. In my view, they should all charge, but I get Facebook's point, to ...

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 ...

As of late, Google+ is getting a series of updates in order to become as popular and dominant as Facebook and Twitter. The updates include addition of new features and deeper integration with other ...