The JKB Marketing Blog

If you have a company or personal profile on Facebook, beginning tonight at midnight you can register a personalized url for your Facebook pages.

The names are going to be given out on a first-come first-served basis. Those who have not had a registered page before 3:00pm today may face a delay in being allowed to register a new name to protect Facebook from name squatting.

I'm surprised they're not charging at least a nominal fee for this service as a way to monetize the success of the site. And other than being first-come, first-served, I don't see how Facebook is going to handle disputes over coveted usernames. This could get ugly for awhile.

Anyway, don't forget to register a tasty username tonight before it's taken!

Microsoft is relaunching it's Live search engine as Bing. Now, this is certainly not the first time that Microsoft has tried to tap into Google's dominance of the search space.

Launched two weeks ago, Bing has the backing of a $100,000,000 campaign push behind it. For the first week in June, Bing has increased it's market share from 9.1% to 11.1%.

Overall, the early reviews for Bing are not that unfavorable. I'll continue to watch the evolution of Bing, and will run some test campaigns to see for myself if there's enough traffic and response to make it worth putting time into.

My early feeling is Bing will prove to be real competition to Google and will pass Yahoo! for second place in the search engine pecking order.