Scoreboard Media Group, Internet Audience Development

Saw this on my Facebook wall a few minutes ago:

Soon you will be able to have a username. Starting on Friday, June 12th, at 11:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/.

Check out the Facebook Blog for more information or send yourself an email with the details.

Better hurry up and change your name to Buy Viagra, Bad Credit Mortgage, Free Government Grants, or Super Acai Berry. For those of you wearing hats of a slightly whiter shade, add this to your things to bill your Reputation Management clients for this month.

For those of you in the B2B world, we (Tippit) are doing a webinar at the end of the month on how you can leverage social media in your demand generation:

“As the number of online conversations, through Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, continue to skyrocket, social media IS giving companies a very low-cost communication channel to engage prospects and customers!

Join this FREE live & interactive web event to learn how social media CAN have an immediate and positive impact on your business. ”

Sign up here.

Big week for Tipd.com, the financial news juggernaut, as the v2.0 feature set was released.  Congratulations to Andy, Jimmy, Mu and the rest of the team for building something of value and disrupting a saturated content market.  SocialTicker is a badass mashup and there are investing videos for the average retail investor (which I’m pretty sure can’t read the news).

In case you missed it…

The CNBC segment: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1086672199&play=1
http://tropicalseo.com/2009/tipd-20-launches-today/
http://blog.tipd.com/2009/tipd-turns-20/
http://mashable.com/2009/04/07/tipd-20-stock-tickers/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/community_building_101_for_the_bootstrapped_startu.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-rodriguez/how-a-social-network-beco_b_183947.html

Disclosure: I am a part owner in Tipd.com

Today, we launched Tipd.com, a community for personal finance, real estate, and economics. Tipd.com was this great little domain I fell in love with at Snapnames, so I gobbled it up. While I didn’t have the development bandwidth to do anything with it now, fortunately some really smart and talented guys like Andy and Mu did. And, boy, did we we trip into an amazing time to launch a community for personal finance.

If you enjoy finance, real estate, and economics, get in there and participate.

For more information about Tipd.com, read some of the early reviews:

VentureBeat
ZDnet
TheStandard
Mashable

Staring at the Digg frontpage right now.  2 pretty mundane stories from Arstechnica and two stories from HuffingtonPost about Hillary’s campaign death spiral.

Real diverse, guys.  Digg domain trust FTW!