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A comment on Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [video].

Re:Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launc... by niyazpk on Saturday June 13, 2009 @05:39AM (#656003)
Please people, please! This is not a place to post Facebook, Twitter and MySpace news.

When sensationalism and hype comes in, intellectully satisfying discussion dies out.

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Re:Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launc... by invisible on Saturday June 13, 2009 @10:50AM (#656168)
The first video explains their approaches to overcoming an unknown challenge to an unknown load, and also why they decided to not charge for the usernames.

Honestly, that video provided some really interesting concepts. The "nuclear" approach seemed really effective to cutting down page loads, too.

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