Archive - August, 2007

Sync your friends across lj, myspace, facebook, etc

August 19 0 Comments Category: myspace/facebook/etc

The creator of Livejournal, Brad Fitzpatrick published a rant/solution/manifesto for the Social Network problem.  The problem, succinctly put is:
 
People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site.
 
His idea was to develop an open-source, non-profit piece of software that aggregates the "Social-graph" into one place.  Social graph basically refers to a virtual [...]

Make yourself a Simpson

August 17 0 Comments Category: Movies

I went out to see The Simpsons movie the other day.  I’ve heard all sorts of reviews for it.  Die hard fans who love it, and die hard fans who hate it.
I think it’s a matter of putting the movie into context.  We all know the Simpsons’ humor in the past few years has evolved [...]

Move over Myspace, here comes Bowlspace

The social networking phenomenon has hit critical mass.  Myspace and some of the other major social networking sites have been enormously successful because they don’t fill a specific niche.  They basically target everyone on the entire internet.  It’s the same kind of monopoly that eBay has on the online auction market.  People join because there’s [...]

Wow, am I glad I switched from pair.com hosting

August 16 1 Comment Category: Digg

I read a post on this blog yesterday, and it left me dumbfounded.  Apparently, this poor guy got to the front page of digg with one of his posts.  He was on a shared hosting account on pair, one of the bigger, more reliable, and definitely highly recommended hosting providers.  He received this email from [...]