Drat, I guess that it's too late for "tear down that wall" speeches. Facebook is waay out ahead. Heck, there are even VCs devoted to Facebook Apps.
And Bebo throws a gantlet as well ...
Bebo Launching Platform: "The Bebo Platform is nearly 100% compatible with the Facebook Platform: the APIs, markup language, and query language are all the same."
So started the Social Graph Platform Wars!
Ack! I don't want salesbots breaking into my flights of fantasy.
Sheesh, bad enough that Reuters has reporters and a Auditorium
Last week, St. George Spirits of Alameda received the news that, after seven applications, the federal agency had approved its label, the final obstacle before going to market. On Monday, the small artisan distillery sold its token first bottle, becoming the only American company since 1912 to sell absinthe in the United States. Then the staff took a moment to celebrate."
Oh, now that's Repeal Day in style!
TechCrunch saith: "We assume that Yahoo simply isn’t interested in maintaining another social network, especially since its purchase of BlueLithium was for its ad network"
Funny, I was going to swap my reg to a more active eddress and put it in the cycle. There certainly are a glut of event sites ...
See Also:
ValleyDeath
CrunchPool
And here I thought that Tribe was in the ZombiePool. Paid features has certainly worked for LiveJournal, dunno what sort of add-ons tribe can come up with.
A fine idea!
Barnacle! Certainly a better word than mashup.
Ah, the now is stranger than SciFi would have it. Interesting Times.
Ah, Twitarrheoa. I will say it three times fast. Often.
Ah, Facebook staked to the ground. The certainly deserve each other! Leaving the market much more intereting ...
#lobbycon is a fine twitter tag!
Love the
/sorryTooSlow@youMissed ::=
lolfeed! Too Fast, Didn't Read ...
glueon is pretty funny too.
Humm, sounds better than SocialStalking ...
When I sign up for Yet Another Social Network, I always poke around for the Usual Suspects ...
Humm, I fail to see the point. Looks like someone resurrected a bbs. Maybe it's a troll den?
Socialize and Buy Event Tickets: "promoters that would like to push an event and sell tickets at the same time can do so on Going. It takes Going in the direction of becoming a one-stop shop, for promoters and end users."
All that, and a Facebook App too!
Eh, There's no there there. Few events. Horrible navigation. Poor search. I log in every few weeks pulled via the facebook app to update the feed. I can't see them making a go of it.
Nice! Shame that it's $500 with bluetooth only. That's one expensive keyboard ...
Think I'll continue to lust after the Nokia 770 keyboardless wonder ...
The title character in the new NBC show 'Chuck,' about a computer geek who becomes a secret agent, will twitter to fans of the show. The campaign launches next Monday and NBC hopes Twitter will send users to other platforms like MySpace, where Chuck will also have a profile."
It was fun following along on twitter, esp. LaughingSquid and SixApart
Keen Zombie App!
Facebook is the new AOL: "Eventually, someone will come along and turn Facebook inside-out, so that instead of custom applications running on a platform in a walled garden, applications run on the internet, out in the open, and people can tie their social network into it if they want, with privacy controls, access levels, and alter-egos galore."
Eeep! Not sure that the redesigned front page is an improvement. Really short pages of your or friends events. Lots of just headlines is much easier to scan. Guess I'll have to live with the rss feeds instead of the interface. The category pages are much better by being short and showing number of friends going.
You have to let the GooglePlex Id your search history ...
Finally! Silly to launch the channel without being able to get it to a primary audience.
Funny, Dodgeball's been on my signup list for so long that everyone's gone web only. Ah, well, guess it's time for the shiney new Twitter account.
"From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court."
I love me some Sock Puppet.
You're going to get your site out of beta this year."
Bwwwhaaahah!
Poking around the old links, I find services marked beta that I don't even remember ... Awesomr, iscrybe, and Orkut. Sheesh, Orkut invite beggery was one reason to hate betas forever. Although, I might make an exception for Klostu.
Gimmie a Banana! Gimmie a Beta! Gimmie an Invite!
"The Web site architecture went through five major revisions—each coming after MySpace had reached certain user account milestones—and dozens of smaller tweaks."
"And although the systems architecture has been relatively stable since the Web site crossed the 7 million account mark in early 2005, MySpace continues to knock up against limits such as the number of simultaneous connections supported by SQL Server, Benedetto says: 'We've maxed out pretty much everything.'"
Well worth the read for what might be the next pain point in your friendly neighborhood YASN.
"Users usually only have read access to their other networks. Social networks are not like news articles or blogs that you can just stick into an RSS reader, they require engagement and participation to become valuable to the user."
FindMeOn calls itself "A cure for multiple web personality disorder".
I can see not having Yet Another Profile, but, people have to browse to the aggregator page. It can not be found via interests or seen by browsing friends-of-friends. So far they've ended up being Yet Another Social Network to remember to log in to, and, wasn't that the very thing that was supposed to be cured?
YASNA!
Keen! That was the way that I remembered it and wondered where the controls were. Turns out they got lost along the way. Tribe.net has many content boxes (rss and groupings of tribes being the most noteworthy) for both your public profile and private home page. Which is quite useful, even if it does enable the occasional eye-bending page.
Arg! It's the attack of the aggregators! YASNAAttack!
Nice widget, though ...
There has always been tagging on personal posts, now groups can have tags, which certainly made finding interesting groups easier. Looks like you can 'watch' a tag and get matching entries put on your Neighborhood view.
Happily, there are already groups about other services, which delight me to no end ... Vox - YouTube and Vox - MySpace.
And the 'send a private message' link at the end of each post is great.
Heh. There's a funny upsell for an online social service. That sounds like 'what you did last night' pictures.
"A new feature is the ability for other users to comment on your Wine Log.Connect with other WineLog users and keep track of what they are logging with our new friends feature. Our recommendation system is constantly working to find others users with similar tastes to you, and now you can easily add these users to your friends list and see what they have tasted and how they have rated new wines."
They just seem to have blogs and wines, but, no profile info and no rss feeds per user.
Coastr is all about the beer and is still quite simple (it's got rss feeds, though!). Not sure what MingleNow's going to be when it grows up.
Bah! However can I xpost everything? My keep new in bloglines and 'revisit' tag in del.icio.us overflow.
Gimmie a Donut!
Yeash, one of the ugliest social networks ever. Although, one of those that requires download like Mugshot might be even more horrid.
"Tagworld's founders haven't logged into their social network site for a month, and are said to be both "out of town". The problems at Tagworld serve as a reminder: in the competition between social network sites, it's winner takes all. And there are few winners."
Oh, yea, Tagworld! Gotta track down my login one of these weeks ...
Also: Valleywag Deathwatch, The Growing Web 2.0 Deadpool Meme
2007 5 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: The world stands at the brink of a second nuclear age. The United States and Russia remain ready to stage a nuclear attack within minutes, North Korea conducts a nuclear test, and many in the international community worry that Iran plans to acquire the Bomb. Climate change also presents a dire challenge to humanity. Damage to ecosystems is already taking place; flooding, destructive storms, increased drought, and polar ice melt are causing loss of life and property.
2002 7 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
1998 9 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
And don't miss,
'ware Nation ID initiatives!
Couldn't agree more! A recent trip to the food sideshow showed her on stacks of mags (besides her own), cereal, and oil. And there's more where that came from ... a Rachael Ray Sucks Community or you could hasten our doom and buy a Yum-O! shirt.
Tracked down an old post. Reputation-based System for the Blogosphere: "All members of the Relevanta community have the ability to contribute information, commentary, and valuations of both the authors and their written works. In addition, Relevanta's underlying database provides automatic linking of keywords and provides members with extended data and background information…"
Tag: relevanta
Whoa, Google Video asks for remote logins to xpost to blogger, lj, myspace, or typepad. I've seen the 'gimmie your address book' jive, but, have been seeing a lot of these xpost requests recently.
The ole feed reader lead me in a mighty circle to a fine game and back to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of Flow fame. A fine flow of an afternoon.
Hat tip to Creating Passionate Users: What comes after usability?
Today I found the widget in the wild! On Susan Mernit's Blog and followed it along to Susan Mernit's Blog - MyBlogLog
Some other feedback:
The breakthrough that is MyBlogLog:"MyBlogLog makes the Internet feel like a huge party where you bump into random people that might be interesting and see friends that you didn’t know were in the same place as you. It’s weird. It’s awkward. It’s fantastic."
Adding Community To The Comments: "if you think someone has written a particularly interesting comment (or a particularly annoying one), you can click on their icon and be taken to their MyBlogLog profile. You can see where they blog, what other MyBlogLog communities they belong to, etc."
I clearly had taken a turn into the universe next door ...
Jinn | Born of fire: "Although a few Islamic scholars have over the ages denied the existence of jinn, the consensus is that good Muslims should believe in them."
The redesigned HUD also allows you to enter in your own RSS feeds, making the Reuters HUD a general-purpose reader so that you can keep up with your favorite Web sites from within Second Life."
Yeash, a virtual island, an embeded reporter, a double-reverse newsfeed. Wack.
Tag: blogger
A fine idea. I resisited Chameleon on top of Bloglines, but, this is nicely integrated. If only I did not cringe and avert my eyes every time I try to use the Google Reader ...
I could stand to loose a few feeds, though.
Tag: aggregator
"Febreze Scentstories: Enjoy the wonderful scent of candles without striking a match!
With six different interchangeable, scent-themed discs to choose from, you can create the atmosphere of places like a mountain trail or a tropical island right in your home."
There are many frightening scents to choose from ...
Whoa, too cool. I've always wanted to get a set of iconic cards. Now I have to ponder what contact info to put on them ...
Pretty much to look at ugly myspace profiles on a tiny screen. Besides it doesn't have nearly the stalking potential of the Helio.
But, really, anything that could scrape the band bulletins or tour schedules out of myspace would be grand.
Bebo's everywhere. I finally had to cut an account and poke at it.
No links out to homepage, limited html (no anchors!), no rss out. Weird safety blurbs throughout. Hard to find people ... conspiracy theory sez that equals page views. A well walled garden.
Ah, well, picked out a skin and found one band that I like ... Machine Head
Tag: social network, bebo
The interface of the Google Reader is just better, and while the Bloglines folks have tried to upgrade their offering recently, giving it some small updates to make incremental improvements - it's like putting the proverbial lipstick on a pig."
Ah! I use the bloglines toolkit constantly for web clipping to Breadcrumbs. It's part of the reason that I seldom think of swapping feed readers. I use Rojo for high-volume, low-information feeds and don't think twice about marking all feeds read. Google Reader doesn't seem near as useful as the above, maybe if I found a few more hotkeys it could be.
Bah! I finally get around to signing up and this greets me. I wanted to collect all the feeds and dump them into the identity aggregators.
Tag: aggregator, suprglu
Ah, An identity service for bbses and forums. Yay. Oh, bah! Closed beta.
So weird having to create yet another id for a services forum or wiki ...
Funny meme pooling onto flickr. Some of my faves are The Wall, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and The Elements of Style.
Really busy website with way too many blinky things going on. A few browser crashes, even. Looks like it's trying to do central profile, though.
Guess to make it really useful you have to cough up passwords for the other sites. I'll have to create some shortdurperselves to try it out ...
Now, Ziki on the other hand looks more like a feed aggregator with some profile links. Nice tagging and 'find similar', though. A limited set of social networks to choose from, which is odd since they don't seem to pull anything from them, but, you can still slurp feeds from whereever.
Gimmie a plain ole rss feed slurper and link farm anyday. Oh! And tribe finally make rss feeds for their blogs.
Guess I've got switch to the new version of blogger (gooblo?) and mess with the sidebar now ...
Tag: Identity, aggregator, ziki, profilelinker
Whoa, nice drop-down subscribe. Now if I can only remember to use it ...
"If you like this, you might also like..."
Awesomo linking powers!
Ah! A much better name than Twenty-first Amendment Passes Day.
"Generally, Repeal Day is celebrated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages."
I'll drink to that!
Multiply: " Cross-posting allows you to have blog entries posted to LiveJournal, Blogger, TypePad, Xanga, or Windows Live Spaces automatically posted to Multiply as well.
Allow any combination of people from your Network, Contacts and Individuals to see your posts."
Ah! Feeds for both people and groups! Skins and CSS. Oddly there doesn't seem to be much a profile, just basic user name, picture, and location.
Tag: multiply, social network
Wack.
I shall have to abuse boingy!
Tag: boingy
Why? Because, according to Mark 3:29 in the Holy Bible, 'Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.'"
Hat tip to BuzzFeed: "Damn yourself to hell via YouTube, win a free DVD! Wow, no one told me that my fellow comrades in the War on Christmas were HOT! We are totally gonna win this one."
Wonkette: "Our favorite part, besides checking out the cute atheist teenagers, is that they’ve advertised in Tiger Beat and Boy Scout Trail"
We currently support blogs, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube, with more to come soon."
Huh, a weird combination of social identity aggregator and stalker. Not so gleeful about the download and the communities don't make much sense via a browser.
Tag: identity, aggregator
Heh! And they're still rolling in ...
On the bright side, BuzzFeed keeps my reading singing with things like the Blasphemy Challenge and the War on Xmas.
Eeek! Those pix should have scared me away, but, noooo. Looks like they slurped places from somewheres and slapped random images on them. Ah, well, it's built, maybe they will come. Not seeing any blogging or rss feeds.
Coastr also has a nice angle.
Don't really see how this will fit into the upcoming, evite, dodgeball mix ...
Tag: minglenow, coastr, social network
Heh, that's going to leave a mark.
The SFCron says that a Muni deficit is projected, but fares will hold steady "Muni has raised fares twice since 2003, with the cost of a regular adult fare now at $1.50 -- a 50 percent increase. Going back for a third fare increase would not be politically palatable, particularly in a year when Mayor Gavin Newsom will be running for re-election and Muni's service reliability is slipping.
Muni is the Bay Area's busiest public transit system with about 618,000 boardings each day. But by the agency's own measures, vehicles are overcrowded, service is slowing down and missed runs are the norm."
It's even better that Office of the Mayor sez that "Newsom sponsored legislation implementing Rescue Muni's reform plan and helped put our Municipal Railway on the road to recovery."
Now, about that Central Subway ...
Funny. Gimmie a pipe and get out of the way. What would I need another account for?
Ugg. So Dumb. Looks like they might actually connect to existing metro stations via tunnels. They don't even make it up to Stockton or North Beach, just dump 'em off at the Lion Gate.
I'm
ticking
for
the
Skwisgaar Skwigelf
Taller than a tree
Toki Wartooth
Not a bumblebee
William Murderface
Murderface Murderface
Pickles The Drummer
Doodily doo ding-dong doodily-doodily doo
Making of Dethklok, an interview with Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha.
"You may recognize this one, 'though it has not been sung for a few thousand years," - Awaken Mustakrakish
"You people out there give us something more than just record sales ... you give us something to hate." - Fan Song
"Finally, thank you for coming to see DETHKLOK live. We understand you have many METAL concert choices out there and they will all be crushed by DETHKLOK." - Pain Waiver
Tag: Metalocalypse, Dethklok
Eeep. How weird and nitch. Doubt this will ever come out of 'revisit' status .... Oh, and yet another rssless wonder.
Tag: warcraft, social network
"Unless you were seriously committed to black metal or hardcore, you probably never had a reason to make the long trek to the remote location in the sketchy no-man's land of Pier 96.
Though the Slim's/Great American Music Hall axis will surely pick up some of the slack, another mid-sized club could easily step in to fill the need."
Humm, Zawinski's Law appears to apply everywhere ...
Tag: software, mail
Spokeo's a nice interface to other interfaces. It doesn't get to Myspace bulletins or show schedules were I find the value in that system. Haven't pointed it at many other YASNs yet. Looks like it's centered on a user logged into Spokeo and poking at other networks. No way to link other people's accounts together, or notes, or tags. Doesn't look like they'll make it into an identity aggregator or even a landing page. Oh well, wait and see.
Tag: aggregator, social+network, spokeo
Tag: buckethead, trogdor, dethklok
We enabled cross-posting on public Vox posts to your LiveJournal.
If your blog is relatively private, you can choose who you want to be able to view it, and restrict access to everyone else.
Log into http://beta.blogger.com/ to access your account's new features.
Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing puts rock, paper and scissors symbols on the underside of bottle caps on its Session lager, a quick way for beer-drinkers to decide who should buy the next round.
Oh! I had no idea that Full Sail made it, I'll have to try it again ...
Tag: beer
It seems likely -- some legal experts say it's inevitable -- that the growth and expansion of electronic tethers to monitor and restrict society's most-violent offenders is the future of crime and punishment."
Ugg. Round up the usual suspects.
Tag: right
Oh, fine, a dozen blogs start hyperventilating and it's beta only. Bleh. Where's my invite social network network?
Matthew Hurst talks about his account: "Klostu offers a single web identity - like a board or blog profile with no associated publication. Your Klostu home page (here's mine) is composed of the now familiar drag-and-drop editable AJAX style page."
Humm, messed with them a couple of times. I don't really see the point. A tease of news like Newsburst or Google Homepage. I much prefer a feed or a river to a tease ...
Tag: right
Oh, yay, yet another almost ran. Facebook opened reg, too. I'll try to contain my excitement.
Cult of Cultspace
The Cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Asteriskianity*
D) All of the above.
*Asteriskianity is its own footnote.
LJ Talk Talk to your LiveJournal friends in real time with LJ Talk, LiveJournal's new instant messaging feature. LJ Talk uses Jabber.
There so much 'gimmie account' on my 43Things that I even cleaned things and 'will help' settings.
I'm
ticking
for
the
Skwisgaar Skwigelf
Taller than a tree
Toki Wartooth
Not a bumblebee
William Murderface
Murderface Murderface
Pickles The Drummer
Doodily doo ding-dong doodily-doodily doo
Finally, thank you for coming to see DETHKLOK live. We understand you have many METAL concert choices out there and they will all be crushed by DETHKLOK.
Pain Waver
Dethklok, World's Most Brutal Metal Band
Tag: Dethklok, Metalocalypse,
