Facebook will make available readable usernames (rather than IDs) starting on Saturday on a first-come first-served basis. The description of the new feature is in the Facebook Official Blog, "Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames".

The usernames countdown site is at: http://www.facebook.com/username/. The feature will become available "Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13", that is 6 am European site. The countdown page will show the time at your current location.

Interesting summary of Google I/O conference: The Web has won. The article is by David Needle is on Internet News.

On the same line, Tim O'Reilly report from the same conference pushes the idea that HTML5 will push the adoption of the web platform even more: Google Bets Big on HTML5.

As this article on Twitter Growth on TechCrunch shows, according to ComScore in the month of may Twitter has surpassed the web visits of Digg, LinkedIn, and NYTimes.com. ComScore estimates Twitter at 32 million global visitors, which is impressive considering how many people use the service with a multitude of clients (including phones) and don't use the web site itself. This is the ComScore graph: 

Checking out on Alexa top site ranking, Twitter holds the 37th place as of today, but half of the places above it are taken by various Google properties (including national Google landing pages). Alexa rates Twitter at a 280% increase over the last 3 months:

There was a race last week to reach one million followers on Twitter, and CNN lost it to Ashton Kutcher (an actor who's also well known for his wife, actress Demi Moore). There was a lot of turmoil in the twitter sphere and blog sphere, and I think this event is relevant, as an individual can beat a large news organization in terms of web presence!

You can read more details on this article http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10221785-26.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 and also look at the image above comparing the two twitter accounts shortly after the million mark was hit. As for my self, I'm getting close to 200 followers on my twitter account, long way to go!

Nice article on Twitter for Business by technology guru Guy Kawasaki at: http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/04/19/how-to-demo-twitter/.

(And this should who up on my twitter account as well).

The YouTube symphony project is an impressive example of web cooperation and how multiple people can contribute to a unique work. I think the idea was nice, but the result is impressive.

You can read about the project at http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony and see the result on YouTube, or below:

Very nice article on http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/03/twitter-unveils-premium-accounts.html. A must read for Twitter followers.

On a more serious note, I like the new Twitter "MORE" button, implemented with a background AJAX call and not a page change.

I removed a profile from another social network, Badoo. A very simple experience.

Go to the profile picture, follow the "remove profile" link, enter your password and leave a bye bye message.

Very clear, well appreciated.

The links to two interesting posts to the Facebook tech blog, focusing on integration:

• Facebook events to Google Calendar: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/15/how-to-sync-facebook-events-with-google-calendar/
• Twitter and Facebook status sync: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/01/22/how-to-sync-your-twitter-and-facebook-status-updates/

Found the following comment in a friend Twitter:

Facebook inauguration stats from @davemorin: 200,000+ status updates, 3,000 comments per minute. Obama rocks Facebook

Also Twitter has seen incredible movement, but the Facebook area was featured in the CNN streaming site, and the rate of comment updates was totally impressive. Does this mean that the TV is dying for live coverate of public events?