Archive for June, 2008
We're living in wonderful times
We live in amazing times. Even though the internet has been around for over 20 years, this is the first time in history we’ve seen people have the ability to not only communicate globally, but to write and have their voice heard without having to go through the anguish of being published. Traditionally, you had [...]
There needs to be a way to funnel all this data
Over the last few months, it’s been getting more and more difficult to funnel conversations from all these blog posts, tweets, diggs, plurks, friendfeeds, pictures, and videos in one place. Most recently, Plurk as come online which has the advantage of self-contained conversations, but with the disadvantage of not seeing friends’ plurks inside those conversations. [...]
Adios, DirecTV
I can’t remember exactly when we got DirecTV, but I know exactly why. Back before the days of digital cable and HDTV, Comcast was the only wired solution in our area. However, the picture was always horrendous with diagonal wavy lines and analog crosstalk, it was completely unwatchable. The only solution was to get a [...]
Plurk survived WWDC, Twitter did not
Yesterday was Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Fransisco, California. Despite how the media will tell you that Apple is a gnat in the computing world, thousands of nerds take their pilgrimage to San Fransisco to meet up with other nerds and talk about C, Cocoa, CoreFoundation, Objective C, and other odd terms not [...]
12-step program for converting from Twitter to Plurk
1. Tell everyone on Twitter you love them and you’ll miss them. 2. Tell everyone on Twitter to move to Plurk. 3. Decide what you’re going to do with your time now that there’s no wait between responses. 4. Work on that karma! 5. Beg the Plurk developers for an API. [...]
Plurk me
Plurk is a new micro-blogging service from Canada. Riding on the heels of Twitter’s current problems and an endorsement from Leo Laporte, it provides not only the standard 140-character micro-blogging service that everyone loves from Twitter, it adds several new features. Some are attractive, some are…not. “plurk is hard it has instructions” – irina slutsky [...]
