Comments on: Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Facebook, ma vie point log | Viadeo Blog http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-111320 Facebook, ma vie point log | Viadeo Blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:16:35 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-111320 [...] l’identité numérique d’un citoyen connecté? Toujours l’Etat? OpenID? Twitter? Facebook? Et, partant, lorsque je voudrai fouiller dans ma mémoire facebook, dans 5 ans, devrais-je payer [...] [...] l’identité numérique d’un citoyen connecté? Toujours l’Etat? OpenID? Twitter? Facebook? Et, partant, lorsque je voudrai fouiller dans ma mémoire facebook, dans 5 ans, devrais-je payer [...]

]]> By: Josh http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-109607 Josh Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:43:18 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-109607 Agree with Rolando; do most people really care? Doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me. If it gets stupid people will just stop going anyway. FB should be careful. Agree with Rolando; do most people really care? Doesn’t seem like too big of a deal to me. If it gets stupid people will just stop going anyway. FB should be careful.

]]> By: Marcy http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-108856 Marcy Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:47:36 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-108856 I don't think that vanity URLS hurt us, not claim our identities. I mean sure it sucks that someone has the same name and probably got yours. But it's really no big deal...is it? I don’t think that vanity URLS hurt us, not claim our identities. I mean sure it sucks that someone has the same name and probably got yours. But it’s really no big deal…is it?

]]> By: Steve Ellwood http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-107512 Steve Ellwood Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:36:36 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-107512 Like zariat, @rossrader and @robcollingridge, I use my domain to point outwards. e.g http://steveellwood.com/facebook , http://steveellwood.com/twitter and http://steveellwood.com/google As it happens, I did get http://facebook.com/steveellwood Like zariat, @rossrader and @robcollingridge, I use my domain to point outwards.

e.g http://steveellwood.com/facebook , http://steveellwood.com/twitter and http://steveellwood.com/google

As it happens, I did get http://facebook.com/steveellwood

]]> By: Khürt Williams http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106505 Khürt Williams Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:07:32 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106505 Good discussion here but I think the only media specialist are concerned. My wife, my sister-in-law, and my brother does not care whether they are facebook.com/family or facebook.com/id=666866. Good discussion here but I think the only media specialist are concerned. My wife, my sister-in-law, and my brother does not care whether they are facebook.com/family or facebook.com/id=666866.

]]> By: Mike http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106456 Mike Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:34:59 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106456 Thanks for the info! I got my name as the username. You don't need 1,000 Fans to get your own username. Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria. Mike Thanks for the info!

I got my name as the username.

You don’t need 1,000 Fans to get your own username.

Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria.

Mike

]]> By: zariat http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106348 zariat Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:51:58 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106348 best solution of all: buy your domain name, then set up URL redirects from subdirectories: mydomain.com/facebook mydomain.com/myspace etc… then redirect them to your annoying long network URLs! this also saves you if you want to change your network accounts later. i recently posted this tip on my blog, with cut-paste code and instructions: http://www.zariat.com/z/2009/05/17/diy-link-shortening-for-your-networks/ best solution of all:
buy your domain name, then set up URL redirects from subdirectories:

mydomain.com/facebook
mydomain.com/myspace
etc…

then redirect them to your annoying long network URLs!
this also saves you if you want to change your network accounts later.

i recently posted this tip on my blog, with cut-paste code and instructions:
http://www.zariat.com/z/2009/05/17/diy-link-shortening-for-your-networks/

]]> By: Harold Cabezas http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106304 Harold Cabezas Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:30:12 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106304 Thank you. I really enjoyed this post. I completely agree with what Brian Oberkirch wrote-what is important today, more than likely won't be important tomorrow. It is important to realize that our digital profiles are the reflection of our personality; once the digital profiles become our actual personality, we have lost all touch with {our} humanity. Thank you. I really enjoyed this post.

I completely agree with what Brian Oberkirch wrote-what is important today, more than likely won’t be important tomorrow.

It is important to realize that our digital profiles are the reflection of our personality; once the digital profiles become our actual personality, we have lost all touch with {our} humanity.

]]> By: Andrew Hyde http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106265 Andrew Hyde Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:14:40 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106265 This is an empty comment saying 'great post' and 'my digital identity was here.' This is an empty comment saying ‘great post’ and ‘my digital identity was here.’

]]> By: Timo Reitnauer http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/09/facebook-usernames-and-the-battle-over-your-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-106260 Timo Reitnauer Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:14:28 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/?p=1484#comment-106260 Ideally Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. could be mapped to your domain name. They just have to create the Vanity URL as a subdomain as well, like facebook.com/whoever --> whoever.facebook.com and allow users to enter a custom domain. I really hope Google will start doing this soon with their profiles. They've already changed the URL from google.com/profiles/username to profiles.google.com/username. So is the next logical step Google Profiles for your domain? It would also help a lot if domain registrars would be more focussed on this topic. Except Chi.mp and freeyourid.com (which doesn't accept new registrations anymore) there's not much happening in our industry. Seems like we have to push it forward with http://iwantmyname.com in the future :) Ideally Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. could be mapped to your domain name. They just have to create the Vanity URL as a subdomain as well, like facebook.com/whoever –> whoever.facebook.com and allow users to enter a custom domain. I really hope Google will start doing this soon with their profiles. They’ve already changed the URL from google.com/profiles/username to profiles.google.com/username. So is the next logical step Google Profiles for your domain?

It would also help a lot if domain registrars would be more focussed on this topic. Except Chi.mp and freeyourid.com (which doesn’t accept new registrations anymore) there’s not much happening in our industry. Seems like we have to push it forward with http://iwantmyname.com in the future :)

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