Easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile with a Facebook username.

But who really cares? Out of the 200+ million users of the social networking website, only about 200,000 grabbed a username. The website provides little information as to how useful these usernames would actually be, and the hassle involved (and strictness) is probably the leading factor that is turning people off.

For example, when checking whether a username is available, this message appears:

(USERNAME) is available. Remember, you can’t change your username once you set it. Are you sure you want to set (USERNAME) as your username?

Nobody really cares, and once again, Facebook is taking a step in the wrong direction and trying to do too much, and turning its users off in the process.

During the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Bertrand Serlet from Apple stated that the Windows 7 had very similar complexities that existed in previous versions of Windows. Serlet even went as far as to say,

Fundamentally, it’s just another version of Windows Vista.

When talking about Apple’s latest Snow Leopard operating system, he took a much different tone. Apparently, he is not only proud of Leopard, but also loves it!

According to Facebook spokesman David Swain,

We do not have details to share at the moment because this will be a very small alpha, only a handful of developers, but will likely share more as we evaluate the results of the test.

Do you remember when “Gifts” first became available through Facebook? They offered each item at the price of $1, payable using a credit card. This was later turned into a point-like system, where USD is used to purchase credits, and “Gifts” became priced according to these credits.

Earlier in the week, Apple started to blitz out push notifications, which is a sign that they will soon be releasing new operating system to the general public. This is where Apple is showing signs of usability weakness for systems that companies like Nokia have fixed years ago.

In order to handle the plethora of notifications, a novel menu was added, allowing iPhone users to handle the notification settings for individual applications, and provide a faster way of turning them on/off en masse. Unfortunately, this causes real headaches for business users, headaches that Nokia solved over 10 years ago.

What Nokia did back then was allow for quick toggling between multiple settings rather than the old “menu hopping” ways of the new iPhone OS.

According to the micro-blogging site Twitter, the issues were on a global scale, affecting Google websites all over the world.

While this all began last Thursday, many users are noticing that everything is pretty much back to normal, which is good news for many of us who highly depend upon the many services offered by the search giant.

All this time I’ve been:
- accepting all ads (paid/credits)
- sponsored contests
- fully dropping

I also applied on the very first day with accurate information, but it’s been weeks and still no approval, despite how much I’ve been helping the “community.”

Well now I think it’s time to reward you bloggers out there on the credit system, until there is a genuine incentive to help the “community” again.

Google Contacts operates similarly to other contact functions, and allows users to share contact information conveniently between the different services. For example, you can import/export contact from third-party sources like Outlook Express, Outlook, Yahoo, and even Hotmail. Apple users can use the application called “A to G.”

For organizations that are using Google Apps, the administrator will have to enable this functionality within the control panel by clicking on the “add more services” link, finding the “Contacts” option and clicking the “add it now” button.