Social Redirects

Last night, the race was on for anyone and everyone to get a direct Facebook URL. As a consequence, I had to decide if I wanted to tie my Facebook account to my real name, or to my CrapMonkey brand. In the end, I decided that Facebook makes more sense being tied to my real name as opposed to the CrapMonkey moniker. This also got me thinking about my presence on other social sites like Twitter, Flickr, and Myspace and how my user names and URLs vary accross each service. Then it struck me that I could put a simple logic behind all of these services just by creating sub-domain redirects from crapmonkey.com. Duh… where have I been? So, here’s the logic of how to find me online: just add the name of the service as a subdomain of CrapMonkey.com. If’ I’m on the service, you’ll find me. Here are some examples: