Here’s a few snippets of the highlights from my fav tech blogs from the past week… enjoy!
Unless you’ve been under a rock all week (or just offline a lot), you certainly heard about the new Facebook username mania. The launch last night, despite dire predictions of crazy land rushes and crashed servers (200,000 were snapped up in the first three minutes), seems to have gone without a hitch… and even a yawn?? [ Mashable & CNet News ]
Web Worker Daily featured a post about getting press attention on the cheap. Much of the article focuses on non-press-release methods that put you in contact with reporters directly, as with Peter Shankman’s Help A Reporter.
twitpocalypse.com
Buzzword watch: “Twitpocalypse”… it’s everywhere! Im as big a Twitterholic than anyone, and I still couldn’t summon much concern about it. Here’s Mashable’s definition:
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash.
Oh. Well, now I know. If you have time to waste, read more about this terrifying catastrophe here, here or here.
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