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 ...

What’s in a name? Everything. One of the most important branding assets your business can own in today’s digital age are your vanity URLs. Through personalized vanity URLs, you can establish your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to stay up past midnight to try to grab a vanity URL on Facebook. After all, I have a 2-year-old who would certainly be waking me up bright ...

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 ...

Starting Friday, Vine users will be able to claim their own vanity URLS—if they're a verified user, that is. The sign up will begin for verified users at 9 a.m. PST Friday morning. Vanity URLs on Vine ...

Facebook watchdog AllFacebook is reporting that the company is asking select users if they would be willing to pay for vanity URLs, such as "http://www.facebook.com ...

If you're an avid user of the Google social network called Google+ you will be excited to hear that starting this week everyone will have access to customized vanity URLs. The idea is that by signing ...

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 ...