Did you participate in the Facebook username land rush only to find out that your username was taken? So did many other people, but a few have figured out how to get their name back. Over the past week I’ve received a number of inquiries from companies that had their Facebook username taken on the site and are trying to figure out how to get it back. Two of the people that contacted were able to get their username within 24 hours from filling out a little known form.

By filling out the Facebook client username form, there’s a good…

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Last night Facebook turned on a feature which will surely build some buzz: the recommendation of brands as friends. Previously Twitter launched a user recommendation system which generated a lot of controversy as recommended users instantly got hundreds of thousands of followers. Many of the popular Twitter users have not yet embraced their Facebook public profiles in the same way that they’ve embraced their Twitter accounts.

Perhaps this new public profile recommendation system will help change that. So how are these new recommendations determined? While we don’t know yet, we have pinged Facebook to find out how they are generating…