Have you tried signing up for Twitter, only to find that the user name you want isn’t available? Well, you might be in luck.

In a post by theNextWeb.com, Twitter has communicated plans to release old usernames from inactive and deleted accounts. Twitter hasn’t officially released a date on the matter, but does promise this to be coming in the future.

We’ll keep you updated as more information is released.

Google's December 7th Annotations announcement certainly excited a lot of Google Analytics users. And so now you have checked you Google Analytics website profile only to not find the much anticipated "Create Annotation" link.

Well not to worry! As with most feature rollouts from Google, the Annotations enhancement is being slowly added to Google Analytics user profiles. According to Google, your wait should be over by mid January, 2010.

From the December 7th announcement:

Annotations is rolling out a bit slower than planned due to the holidays. New features within Google Analytics are launched on a phased roll out due to the volume of accounts, and the demands of testing as we activate the new feature. Usually this process takes from a few days to a few weeks, depending on the feature. Annotations is being activated to an additional 10% of accounts each week and will be pushed live to all accounts by mid January.

A brief video about Google Analytics Annotations

According to Net Applications' browser market share for December 2009, Google Chrome is #3 on the browser list.

The data in itself is a remarkable accomplishment considered Chrome only entered the competition for browser market share about 16 months ago. However, I would suggest caution on the implication that Chrome has taken the #3 spot from Safari for the long term.

In December of 2009 Google released Chrome for Mac. This long anticipated launch conveniently pushed Chrome above Safari for this month. But we should use caution to declare Chrome the #3 browser based upon 1 month of data in the headlines of platform launch. It would be safe to say that a large section of Mac surfers use Safari and may have been test driving Chrome. I do see the climb of the Chrome market share as an imminent progression, especially with the announcement of Extensions in beta. But, I don't think we are there just yet.