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The Faces, The FACES, It's ALL About the F**king FACES! (or, the Avatars / Icons, or a Big Butt)
Master of 500 Hats —
... a collection game around visual images. as it grew & morphed, the profile pages & pictures remained hugely important, however the subsequent innovations around NewsFeed -- again, extremely visual, lots of faces -- and also the overall Facebook Platform, and associated user invitation dialogs, all created interesting & engaging ways for users to click around, into, and on top of interesting visual data (usually faces). they continue to find interesting ways to personalize the user experience, and i don't see them slowing down at all. ...
Will Facebook Give Away Vanity URLs in a Landrush?
Inside Facebook —
... for some time now, rumors are surfacing that Facebook may soon open up vanity URL registration to any user who wants one in a first come, first served land rush. ...
Facebook Vanity URLs May Be On The Way
WebProNews Feed —
... But the trick may be claiming Facebook.com/YourNameHere as opposed to Facebook.com/YourNameYourFavoriteColorYourFavoriteNumberHere. According to Michael Arrington, an announcement about the vanity URLs "should come sometime later this week. Afterwards, at a certain date and time, the landrush will begin." ...
Facebook vanity URLs in the works
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... Techcrunch reports that at long last Facebook is preparing to do something about those heinous numerical user ID strings that are used in the URLs of its users' profile pages. No longer will I have to be ...
Morning Xtra: Impending Facebook Landgrab, New Microsoft Search
Switched —
... Word on the street is that Facebook will soon be offering vanity URLs for its members, so your profile can finally get the Web address it deserves (for example: facebook.com/hundriver). If the rumor is true, you can expect a massive land-grab the likes of which haven't been seen since the ...
Notable News from the Tech World [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... and get more attention for themselves have damaged themselves. Now they’re going to have to pull back from that and say ‘Hey, we’re going to charge for this.’” — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch in an interview with his Fox Business Network, on the future of newspapers.
Notable News
Leaked photos, allegedly of the next-gen iPhone, are making the rounds (Apple 2.0)
Facebook to launch MySpace-like “vanity URLs” soon (TechCrunch)
Twitter ...
Vanity URLs Are Not A Business, And Why Facebook Will Provide Them For Free
All Facebook —
... If the primary service your web startup is providing to users is short profile URLs (a.k.a. vanity URLs), you might as well file for bankruptcy. Perhaps that’s a bit excessive since many entrepreneurs figure out a way to survive even after being shot in the leg (metaphorically speaking of course). Last week Techcrunch reported that Facebook would soon be providing users with free vanity URLs in a land grab that would begin later this week. That means services like Profile.to (which is a relatively popular ...
Getting Your Facebook Vanity URL? Shrug. It’s Second-Rate Branding
Wired: Epicenter —
... Chances are you won’t even get the Facebook name you really want — clearly everyone won’t. A bunch have already been reserved for a select few, like those friends and family shares of that IPO you’ll have buy into when it goes public and never recoup a dime while the insiders make out like bandits with penny shares (clearly I am suspended in a pre-dotcom bust fantasy world. ...
