aka.ms and a squirrel's nest

Today I was setting up a couple URL with the Microsoft Social Experience Platform (SXP) shortening service, aka.ms and in one search on Bing found out that my Microsoft alias, drey, is what you call a squirrel's nest.  Instead of typing in blogs.technet.com/drey, I shortened it to aka.ms/drey. 

This is also one example of what Windows Azure can do.  I'm just beginning to dabble in Azure now that it also have Virtual Machines in the latest preview version.  I read through aka.ms to learn more about the service I began to consume. I've received at least 10 aka.ms links in the past, but to put the platform to use for me is pretty cool.

So now that I've gotten a taste for what the Social Experience Platform can do, watch out!  I can now link to all shorts of places on various Microsoft sites, like aka.ms/bythenumbers.  I'm sure there are more I'll think of this fall, but for now, these two will be sufficient.