Web 2.0 - Part 4

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Facebook allows username change

posted on July 24, 2009 in Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Not too long ago Facebook introduced usernames. A feature that made your Facebook profile URL more meaningful. However, at the time Facebook only allowed only one user name change. So if you chose a bad user name like these people did, you just had to suck it up and live with your mistake. Fortunately Facebook [...]

Google’s twitter accounts

posted on July 17, 2009 in google, twitter, Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

If you’re a Google fan and use Twitter then you should already be following Google on Twitter. But do you know that Google has an Twitter account for almost all it’s products. iGoogle, Calendar, Reader, Voice, YouTube, Images, yada….. yada… yada…. they all have Twitter accounts! These are the current Twitter accounts by Google. Grabed [...]

Facebook adds usernames

posted on June 17, 2009 in Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Facebook has always used random numbers to make up your profile page URL. This is not longer the case, with the introduction of Facebook usernames, you can now have your name in the URL instead of the random numbers. See mine below. Go to the http://www.facebook.com/username/ page and set you desired username. That’s all, now [...]

Twitter Tees By Threadless

posted on May 20, 2009 in Cool Stuff, twitter, Web 2.0 with 2 Comments

Twitter has partnered with Threadless to come out with “Twitter Tees by Threadless“. Twitter powered Tees where the design is decided by your Tweets. This is cool, The Threadless community actually votes for it’s favourite Tweets. The popular Tweets then end up on Tees. This is something other Tee shirt companies don’t quite do yet. [...]

Another Malaysian URL shrinker, lynx.my

posted on May 6, 2009 in Internet, Malaysia, Web 2.0 with 0 Comments

Previously, I covered xs.my . Today it’s lynx.my , another Malaysian based URL shortening service. Check it out. However, unlike xs.my, lynx.my does not generate a random URL string for you. Instead, you have to provide your own shortened string. While this is good, I see it coming back to bite it’s users when they [...]

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