Tag Archives: Social Websites

Trendsetting Teens?

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 … Continue reading

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MMOs and Social Networking

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 … Continue reading

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Shelfari vs. Goodreads

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 … Continue reading

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Weeding out Entrecard

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 reading

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Social Websites

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 … Continue reading

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Why Digg.com has become irrelevant

I have been a long time reader and user of Digg.com. I have had apps on my homepages for years to get the latest stuff off of Digg. The idea is great, allow users to choose what news stories are … Continue reading

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Flock

I just downloaded the beta of Flock and playing around with the new browser and all it’s nifty little features. It is actually kind of cool. It’s essentially FireFox with a little beef added to it. The UI is very … Continue reading

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