Recently, I noticed that blogspot/blogger had updated to give users a little more control over their blogs, because of that I decided to give it another shot after years of absence. There are a few advantages to blogspot in particular over hosting yourself or WordPress’ similar service. First, unlike WordPress, you can actually post your own…Continue readingThoughts on Blogspot
A few weeks ago on my way to work, again listening to NPR, I heard a report on how teenagers are moving en masse from MySpace to Facebook. This isn’t an entirely surprising trend, but towards the end of the piece, they had a teenager remarking on how he thought it was just a fad,…Continue readingTrendsetting Teens?
MMORPG developers have a crap load to learn from the social networking movement that is currently swarming the internet. Heck, they have a lot to learn from the internet itself and how people communicate and mesh. If you really sat down and looked at it, MMOs are just sad when it comes to human interaction…Continue readingMMOs and Social Networking
Over the last few days I have become interested in the social networking sites that are geared around books and reading. The main two in this particular genre are Shelfari and Goodreads. Both of these sites have the same basic concept, allow people to display what books they have read, their rating for those books,…Continue readingShelfari vs. Goodreads
I am getting kind of tired of Entrecard so if you haven’t noticed I’ve slowly been weeding it off my site. I’ve now completely taken it off everyplace but the front page and the top droppers widget on my lifestream page. The concept of Entrecard isn’t completely awful, it is just too time consuming to make worthwhile.Continue readingWeeding out Entrecard
Over the weekend I have been looking around at a lot of social websites, largely due to the fact that I have really enjoyed Twitter. I have found a lot of good ones and bad ones, and a lot of cool uses for sites. I thought I would sum up some of the better social…Continue readingSocial Websites