We have updated known icons for the following sites:

add-this.com, addthis.com, amazon.com, aol.com, bing.com, bi.ng, blip.fm, blip.tv, coroflot.com, daytum.com, designbump.com, drupal.com, ebay.com, feedburner.com, feedburner.google.com, forrst.com, gdgt.com, github.com, gowalla.com, icondock.com, identi.ca, metacafe.com, microsoft.com, mister-wong.com, paypal.com, photobucket.com, podcast.com, qik.com, qik.ly, scribd.com, slashdot.com, slashdot.org, slideshare.com, slideshare.net, smugmug.com, soundcloud.com, spotify.com, and spotify.me

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Those were two turbulent days in the history of Name.ly we hope never to experience again. We were scaling the system up to offer better performance to our visitors. When everything was running smoothly and we were ready to hand the job to the marketing guys, suddenly the database RAID failed. We had the option to proceed with the immediate backup recovery however since RAIDs usually offer a solid option of the data recovery we opted in for the latter.

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Name.ly is proud to present two additions to its portfolio. Two special themes are: MiniVee and Splash.

The former is ideal for people with more than one business card, providing a catchy slide animation toggling between multiple cards via the bottom menu equipted by favicons and card icons:

MiniVee screenshot

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For many of you who asked about further customisation of Name.ly/Cards sites, from today on, it is posible to set your own background image on both Name.ly/Cards and LiveTweets themes. Have a look yourself.

One can set a custom colour, external image url, upload a background image, or even use any image from the media library. Either go to:

Appearance > Background

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