This Day in History: The Facebook Land Grab

So I bought into the hype (what else was I supposed to do?) and spent half an hour watching the clock tick down at facebook.com/username.. confident that I would be able to claim my spot as the number 1 sherwin on the internets. After all, I already own the much coveted twitter.com/sherwin.

I sat and waited, following the events as the unfolded on the Mashable chat.. half expecting Facebook to implode under the load of a billion page refreshes. Fortunately it didn’t.. and from the goings on at the countdown I found that my countdown timer was running slightly slower. This is understandable, but I suspect that this was what sealed my fate as not being able to claim the spot of #1 Sherwin on the internet.

Because of this 1 second delay, another Sherwin swooped in and claimed the username I had been eagerly waiting for since the announcement was made more than a week ago.

So now I’m facebook.com/sherwinhuang or facebook.com/sherwin.huang or facebook.com/sherwin-huang take your pick.

Not too bad I guess! At least I’m not sherwinhuang28912317

Facebook Connect YOUR BLOG

With integration of profiles with personal blogs, it’s kind of a toss up between Google and Facebook. It looks really easy and I like how it appears to be so customisable. I’ll need to do more research into this, but  I’ll implement this as soon as I can find the free time. Then again, someone might beat me to it and build an awesome WordPress plugin so I won’t have to do a thing.

via Mashable

More at the Facebook Developer Site

Project Palantir: Real Time Facebook Data Visualisation

This would make quite an impressive compliment to any analytics package. It displays a variety of interactions taking place between users including friend requests and messages. I guess the fact that Facebook has a huge number of data requests all the time makes the video look a lot cooler.

Project Palantir