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Here are few examples of what <UIKey> can do for you:

Case #1: You're an individual and sometimes you use an email address, sometimes another. Still you want to be able to print an email address on your Business Cards. Solution: create your personal key (e.g. John Doe) and mention your current email address (e.g. john.doe@somedomain.com) in <UIKey>. On your Business card print http://uikey.org?w=John Doe. This will always point to the email address you once mentioned. If tomorrow, your email address changes, simply head to <UIKey>, edit your key, and mention the new email address.

Case #2: You're an individual and you have multiple domains that are linked to your name, such as a blog, a site for your pictures and poems, ... You want to be able to let your relatives, friends and acquaintances know that they can reach you via all these domains. Solution: create your personal key (e.g. John Doe) and mention the multiple domains you own (e.g. http://www.john-doe.name, http://www.john-blog.com, ...) in <UIKey>. On your Business card print http://uikey.org?w=John Doe. Your relatives, friends and acquaintances will receive a list of the domains you own. Should this list change, simply edit your <UIKey> key and add more domains or remove the domains that no longer used.

Case #3: You're an artist, a band, … and you want to promote your next gig or your latest song. Solution: Link your key to this exclusive content, concert extracts, mp3, … and much more! You will then spread the word around the globe.

Case #4: You're a photographer and you would like to tag your pictures so that your public can easily find them one by one separately on the Internet. Solution: create unique keys such as john-doe-pict-0000001, john-doe-pict-0000002, john-doe-pict-0000003 ... and associate a URL to each of them (the same URL can be used for multiple images). Now, on any printed material you can use these keys and let your public find you easily.

Case #5: You manage a magazine and you would like your articles to be referred on the Internet in a permanent manner. You would like these articles to be found easily by the readers of your magazine. Solution: for each article, register a unique <UIKey> and link it to the page where the article is to be found. Print the <UIKey> of each article at the end of the article and your readers will be able to find these articles back very easily, tomorrow or in 10 years from now. In the meantime, if your article has moved to another place, simply edit your <UIKey>s to reflect the enw location: the key hasn't changed ... only the target link has changed.

Case #6: You are a printer manufacturer and you would like your printer drivers to be available to your customers and users. You also want to store the documentation of your printer permanently. Solution: for each model, register a <UIKey> and link it to a URL where the printer driver and the documentation can be found. If you decide to terminate the support of a specific model simply indicate that the key is discontinued in <UIKey>. This will be reflected by <UIKey> automatically. If for other models, you have decided to change the page where the doc or the driver is available, simply edit your <UIKey> to reflect the newer location.

Case #7: Solution: register a <UIKey> with a TTL (expressed in seconds). Link a URL to it. Whenever the key will be used within the TTL, the associated URL will be activated. Once the TTL elapsed, the key will indicate that the TTL is over and won't target the URL anymore.