Was saving down facebook data into a database from the graph api, wanted to save the urls in a mixed url table but didn’t want to bother saving the whole http://www.facebook.com every time, what a waste of data. Initially I lazily abbreviated this too: fb.com/whateverthepagewas, left the acquisition stuff to its job and then went off to do something else. Coming back to the management system I accidentally clicked one of these fb.com/ links, and it worked! Facebook have set it up as a redirect. Maybe this was common knowledge but I hadn’t heard of it before…Anyhow a useful biproduct of dataspace savings!

So check it out: fb.com/hayday

That will redirect you too http://www.facebook.com/hayday (my page.) – just like fb.me, but traditional-like, lol. Neat eh? Anyone else know any facebook quick wins?

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