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Facebook Vanity URLs Available this Saturday

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For all those who want to calculate when is 12am EDT in your local time, go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ where you got a count down.. (6 am saturday here in Switzerland)

http://www32.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12am+EDT automatically detects your time zone and tells you your local time for that event, in case you're too lazy to determine it from the countdown on the official page

Edit: nevermind, I just saw they added that to the official site already, my bad - I only went there and saw the big countdown, didn't read the small-ish stuff above. Sorry again.

One of the things I always liked about Facebook was the lack of a global namespace. Every name on Facebook was contextual, when you logged in, so that Steve Andersen to me would mean something different than Steve Andersen to you, just like in real life. Sorry to see that go, but I suppose it's a tradeoff and a lot of good things will result from the new namespace.

I remember about a year ago Zuckerburg was running on about how we're just mapping the existing social graph so we don't need usernames and deriding myspace for it... amazing how a few months and a little tweetie bird can change your mind.

Nice to see that they're going to place new accounts on 'probation' of sorts to (try and) prevent name-squatting.

woah, I just noticed names can have "." chars. Who's gonna get "home.php"? ;)

Quick, somebody write a Web app that hammers Facebook on your behalf.

Having a name no one else in the world has does have advantages

it has its disadvantages too, you are very easy to find using Google.

They could tolerate squatting but explicitly support a secondary market powered by their credits system (and take 30%)

I just hope I remember when friday night comes along.

http://calendar.google.com + SMS reminder

thats awesome, i missed out on the google profile name rush.

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