2009/03/16
URLs are People Too, Even on Facebook
s/vanity/friendly/. Though actually getting a friendly profile URL seems to require some mojo at the moment.
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Clay Shirky recently wrote up some thoughts on algorithmic authority, well worth reading: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculativ...
Yes, URLs are people, but I think there's something to humanizing the way that we refer to people online that maps to the offline/real world as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, I imagine Facebook will open up a domain-name-like marketplace for vanity/friendly URLs in the future. But it seems like a distraction AFAIC.