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Facebook: Over 3 Million Usernames Claimed
mashable.com - 6/13/2009
Facebook: Over 3 Million Usernames Claimed
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Last night, were were live at Facebook headquarters when they launched Facebook usernames to the public. The numbers were astounding, and so was the celebration over the successful launch. What numbers am I talking about? In the first three minutes, about 200,000 usernames were registered. In ...
Against real-time: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design
venturebeat.com - 6/12/2009
Against real-time: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design
— venturebeat.com — Facebook is backing away from its March site redesign , a source tells me. The one that... has focused users’ homepages on a quickly updating “stream” of status updates — and was trying to take on microblogging service Twitter , ... (more) Against real-time: Facebook to sort of bring back the ...

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Facebook Vanity URLs: Journalists Don’t Have To Wait In Line
techcrunch.com - 6/11/2009
Facebook Vanity URLs: Journalists Don’t Have To Wait In Line
— techcrunch.com — Friday night is the Facebook vanity URL landrush ( first reported on May 31, announced yesterday officially).... At 9:01 pm PST on Friday, just log into Facebook and grab the name you want before someone else does. While the masses (that’s you) ... (more) Facebook Vanity URLs: Journalists Don’t Have To Wait In Line

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Facebook Confirms Ban on Two Platform Ad Networks for Deceptive Ads
insidefacebook.com - 6/11/2009
Facebook Confirms Ban on Two Platform Ad Networks for Deceptive Ads
— insidefacebook.com — After increasing reports of deceptive advertisements within some Facebook applications, Facebook has confirmed that it has banned... two advertising networks from operating on the Facebook Platform. The two ad networks, SocialHour and SocialReach , ... (more) Facebook Confirms Ban on Two Platform Ad Networks for ...

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Obsessable News Feed:  Facebook vanity URLs top 1 million within an hour, 3 million on first night

Betanews:  Twitter, Facebook both survive rumored Ragnarok

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Facebook vanity URLs top 1 million within an hour, 3 million on first night
Obsessable News Feed — The Great Facebook Land Rush went off last night, declared a success by the company. Mashable has some nice stats on how the Facebook namespace grab went last night (and live coverage from inside the Facebook engineering war room, including the above pic): First 3 minutes: 200,000 usernames registered First 15 minutes: 500,000 usernames registered First hour: 1 million usernames registered First 14 hours: 3 million usernames registered All in all, pretty impressive for a Friday night ...

Twitter, Facebook both survive rumored Ragnarok
Betanews — ... 200,000 new URLs registered in three minutes, and Mashable (hunkered down in the Facebook war room) claimed a million settled within the first hour -- the event passed with no reports of even palpable delay in page service. ...

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