IT lessons from Facebook's user name launch

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 07/02/2009 - 7:24am

Facebook has detailed some of the backend moves as it prepared to roll out usernames to 200 million users. The blog post is the latest in Facebook’s effort to allow us peak behind the scenes a bit.

Facebook allowed its 200 million users to pick names while keeping the site running. Some of the lessons are obvious, [...]


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