Tag Archives: vanity urls

Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity

Jun 9th – 4pm

Techmeme is buzzing with the news that Facebook is finally going to provide custom usernames — and hence web addresses — for its 200 million users. The land grab begins in just over three days at facebook.com/username/. If Dustin Moskovitz were dead, he’d be rolling over in his grave. For those of you who don’t [...]

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My name is not a URL

Mar 21st – 5pm

Arrington has a post that claims that Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start – users love vanity URLs. I don’t buy it. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the omission of vanity URLs on Facebook is an intentional design decision from the beginning, and one that I’ve learned to [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Life online, Usability, Web building | Also tagged , , , | Comments (59)