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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: usernames</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/usernames.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-01-24T23:44:46+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>FluidDB domain names available early (and free) for Twitter users</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/fluidinfo/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-01-24T23:44:46+00:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T23:44:46+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/fluidinfo/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2009/01/24/fluiddb-domain-names-available-early-and-free-for-twitter-users/"&gt;FluidDB domain names available early (and free) for Twitter users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
It’s interesting how Twitter has revitalised the concept of usernames as first class identifiers. FluidDB hasn’t even launched yet, but it’s allowing people to reserve their Twitter username within the FluidDB system just by following @fluidDB.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fluiddb"&gt;fluiddb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/identity"&gt;identity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/terry-jones"&gt;terry-jones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usernames"&gt;usernames&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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