Happy 2012!

Happy Christmas every one! Finally Name.ly has just launched premium accounts allowing you to have not only jingly web-addresses but catchy emails too. Just see how Larysa has impressed her friends:

On top of that, premium accounts benefit from 10x more upload space, custom settings such as personal footers, post history, arbitrary URL redirects, no added ads, and more.

As a special holiday gift, Name.ly will double the first 20 top-ups. So hurry up while the offer lasts. We will extra credit your account with whatever you spend until the end of the year with us. Be the first one in the queue. * – The promo action will expire by the end of the year.

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In addition to link bundling services (Many.at, Brief.ly, Links2.Me), Name.ly also offers a plugin that will automate link bundling on all WordPress sites.

The plugin simply does the following:

1. It scans every post and / or page and finds all embedded references.

2. Then it groups those links into bundles ready to be opened with a single click.

3. Finally, at post’s bottom, it inserts bundles, by clicking on which the site administrators and visitors can check out all links in much timely manner.

Links2Tabs in action

One would want to ask: “why do I need it?”

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Name.ly keeps innovating even during the hot summer times. This month we released two plugins for WordPress that can be handy for any site:

• Feed2Tabs
• Links2Tabs

Feed2Tabs allows adding widgets and shortcodes that will automatically open recent feed items in tabs with just one single click. Feed2Tabs can also me used as a stand-alone service. The plugin itself makes it easy to add Feed2Tabs widgets to any WordPress blog.

Links2Tabs bundles references at the bottom of each post and/or page, allowing to open/check all of them with one single click. An example of such bundle can be below.

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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