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LONDON, 14 December 2010 (Brands-and-Jingles)

Name.ly is proud to present you with alpha version of its new service Brief.ly.

Unlike conventional URL shorteners Brief.ly allows you to re-route your links any time, any place.

You can shorten multiple links at once, pick up catchy designs and choose among dozens of integrated short and meaningful domain names.

All embedded multi-sites are opened with just one click, making switching between them instant. That saves readers a lot of effort while opening links sent though mailings or other online channels.

Publishers enjoy in-depth visitor analytics and full range of blogging features too.

This launch of the alpha version successfully concludes Brief.ly/Paradox informative teaser campaign run prior to the official launch.

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Earlier this year Name.ly has added few short URLs and redirects, now with demand rising, we are glad to announce about the most shortest star link you can come across the Internet.

Please welcome our new Name.ly domain name, the most shortest and the most starest one:

✯.ws

Read as “star web site”, ✯.ws surely catches the eye among the myriad of other links, so abandon now on the web.

This post for instance will now also resolve as http://✯.ws/!Ej$6L.

Big thanks to Alex, it is now possible to embed any kind of video on all your Name.ly sites. To configure all the settings just go to:

Settings > Video Quicktags

Name.ly was invited to give a short presentation at Odessa Camp.

Please find below the presentation slides in English and Ukrainaian:

As well as PDF files:

• @Name_ly #odcamp #en
• @Name_ly #odcamp #ua

In addition to our recent additions of new jingling URLs and their shorteners, Name.ly platform has added few more features on all of its domains. They will provide you with better URL customisation.

From today on it is possible to redirect sub-domain and sub-directories, both ways.

Say, if you blog was joking.ofcour.se, it is now will be possible to use ofcour.se/joking.

It is also possible to add dashes, dots and underscores (“-“, “.”, and “_”) to any place of the sub-directory address. Thus ofcour.se/facebook will also work as:

• ofcour.se/face-book
• ofcour.se/face.book
• ofcour.se/face_book
• and even as ofcour.se/f_a_c_e-b.o.o.k

Though, the last one looks pretty ugly and you won’t be really using it.

The same way, thailandhotels.of-cour.se or ofcour.se/thailandhotels will also work as:

• of-cour.se/thailand-hotels
• of-cour.se/thailand_hotels
• of-cour.se/thailand.hotel
• and even as of-cour.se/thai.land-hotels etcetera

Name.ly sites – jingly URLs for your new online home page

Abstract:

Unlike conventional URL shorteners, Name.ly provides web addresses that read as slogans. And this is just the beginning of the list full of other perks: get ready for many mini applications useful for social networking and blogging.

LONDON, 6 April 2010 (Brands-and-Jingles)

Nowadays people are converting their Internet links into omnipresent short uniform resource locators (URLs), a hype created by Twitter, a messaging system, which allows maximum 140 character entries. Good chances are that you have been clicking on bit.ly, j.mp, ow.ly… to name a few. Big online names followed the suit shortly. Amazon has acquired am.az, French Dialymotion bought dai.ly, Facebook already owns fb.me, Flickr reduces links’ length via flic.kr, Google uses goo.gl, LinkedIn shortens to lnkd.in, LiveJournal integrated shar.es, Posterous has post.ly, WordPress went for wp.me, and YouTube is working with youtu.be.

Unlike all of the above URLs that deploy difficult to remember alphanumeric codes, Name.ly, a new social platform, provides web addresses that read as slogans or complete sentences. Name.ly went live in earlier 2010 with two headline jingles: Sincere.ly and ThatIs.Me. The platform also has dozen, if not hundreds, of other jingling names in the pipeline ready to be released as soon as the demand catches up.

With Name.ly, it is now possible to have Internet sites with addresses like sincere.ly/johnny or thatis.me/jane. The former one in particular can also be enhanced and used in e-mail footers as sincere.ly/yours/johnny or yours.sincere.ly/johnny. If your name is Sarah Smith, you may wish to rush to enrol for your impressive web address sincere.ly/sarah.smith.

On top of these nice and catchy URLs, Name.ly also offers web templates that consolidate multiple user profiles and web sites on one single page. For instance, Name.ly/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.

Another theme, Name.ly/Cards, offers great ways to present contact information in elegant and animated way.

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