Acknowledging today’s official launch of Namechk, the web’s newest social media username checking service, Go2web20 added the service to its directory.

Go2web20 is one of the largest web 2.0 directories, indexing over 2,700 services. It’s aim to is help people stay current with the new web services. The company constantly updates it directory, keep only active sites listed for its users.

Our appreciation to Orli Yakuel, founder of Go2web20, for the fast response to our launch. Orli’s goal is to add value to the web community and we share that goal. We look forward to adding more valuable services for our users in the near future!

Namechk’s speedy response time was highlighted in a CNET article written today by Josh Lowensohn, associate editor for CNET’s Webware.com blog:

“What’s really impressive about this service is the speed. In a few sample searches, it averaged about 8 seconds from start to finish. And you don’t even have to wait to see all the results because they stream in as it does its business.”

Thanks for the shout out, Josh. We’ll be adding new services in the coming weeks, such as user-submitted recommendations for new social sites and a tool that will actually register at all available sites for you.

We think it is important to brand yourself or your company consistently across the major social network websites. That means getting the same username identity/URL as often as possible. It makes it easier for others to find you, but it also builds a cohesive marketing strategy that eventually does make it into the main search engines.  It also keeps others from tapping into your success and brand jacking your efforts and identity.

So we think it’s important, but what do others think?

Well, recently Jason Calacanis offered Twitter $250,000 for a two year stint on the “suggested users to follow page” that’s displayed after a new user signs up for the service. Most of those suggested users do get followed and Jason thinks it would have netted him between two and ten million followers over the two year term. With that many followers, Jason figures he could drive about a million users per month over to his company website via his tweets so the $250k would have been well worth it.

We think this is only one of many examples of how social networking can be leveraged, but it shows there is a lot of value to your social brand and using namechk.com to secure that brand just makes a lot of sense. We hope you enjoy using the site.