http://www.socialnomics.net World of Mouth for Social Good Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:02:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-facebook-url-insights-and-results/ http://www.socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-facebook-url-insights-and-results/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:18:50 +0000 Erik Qualman http://socialnomics.net/?p=214 Hooray!  The Facebook username servers didn’t crash (www.facebook.com/username).  Also the countdown clock was genius and it went live right on time – a very California friendly time (12:01 EST).  Below are my quick learnings:

1. It was obvious that some Facebook URLs are being held by Facebook like /chocolate, /beer, /travel, etc.  The reason that I say this that if you type in www.facebook.com/travel no fan pages show up.
2. Your new Facebook username went live instantly.
3. You can’t ever change your Facebook username, so hopefully nobody had any typos out there!
4. Surprised that they allowed users and not Facebook fan pages to get such keyword rich terms as /whiskey and /studenttravel…my bet is these are turned over to fan pages at a later date – not via user transfer (not allowed by Facebook) but by Facebook playing Supreme Court and moving them over themselves.  Money talks.
5. If your fan page didn’t have 1,000 users by May 30 you couldn’t secure a Facebook URL.  Hence, You have the fun of coming back on Sunday, June 28.  This seemed odd that a user with only one friend could secure a great url while companies were left in the dark a bit.
6. I had pretty good luck getting /equalman, /collegetravel, /VEDay, /educational.tours
7. They need to figure out a way to allow or at least block items.  For example if Shaquille O’Neal secured /shaq then some other bozo could get /shaquille.oneal and another /shquilleoneal
8. It was fun IMing with friends – on Facebook of course – as the time deadline approached
9. All and all it was pretty fun, because it was different and mainly because I have no life at midnight on a Friday.

]]> http://www.socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-facebook-url-insights-and-results/feed/ 8 http://www.socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-url-land-grab/ http://www.socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-url-land-grab/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:47:51 +0000 Erik Qualman http://socialnomics.net/2009/06/13/facebook-username-url-land-grab/ Well, here I am less than 15 minutes away from trying to secure as many Facebook URLs as I can. Although I’m certain that www.facebook.com/username server is going to crash and crash hard somewhere around 12:01 est. Love that the Californian’s can have a few drinks and then grab all the good Facebook usernames while us sleps on the East Coast are having a fun Friday night waiting like Cinderella for the clock to strike midnight. Facebook was at least smart enough to only allow for users and companies with existing accounts to be eligible otherwise the stampede would have been insane. I’ll let you know how it goes, but fingers crossed.

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