FriendFeed, the highly-praised social content aggregation service just got a little cooler, with the new companion application, Alert Thingy. The program is just as charming as its name implies, and offers quick aggregation for your and all of your friends’ online activity, right to an aesthetically pleasing little window on your desktop. And […]
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Alert Thingy Shows Just How Annoying I Am
Published April 13th, 2008 in Applications and Services, Blogs, Communication, Design, Software and The Interwebs. 0 CommentsLymabean: The coolest social network you haven’t heard of
Published February 6th, 2008 in Applications and Services, Communication, Design, The Interwebs and Web Development. 1 CommentDo you think Facebook is neat? Think again. This video may rewrite everything you know about social networks.
Lymabean is essentially a one-stop center for all of your social needs, including everything from local events to business reviews to music sharing, all accessible in a beautiful flash interface. Perhaps the most notable feature […]
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!: Oh crap.
Published February 2nd, 2008 in Communication, Computers, Search Engines and The Interwebs. 5 CommentsMicrosoft has apparently offered to buy Yahoo! for the paltry sum of $44.6 billion. This bothers me. First of all, Microsoft has had almost a monopoly in the OS market for the last couple of decades, and we all know how they handled that. If they get a majority share of the […]
Quick and Dirty: Yahoo! Mash Review
Published September 15th, 2007 in Applications and Services, Communication, Search Engines and The Interwebs. 0 CommentsYahoo, in an effort to capture market share in the Web 2.0 social networking market, has just released their new social network, named Mash. They seem to have taken special care to make it something that could be used as a verb, as all over your profile (and others’ profiles, as well), you are […]
IMified: Not making me any more efficient
Published July 21st, 2007 in Applications and Services, Communication and The Interwebs. 0 CommentsIMified is an extremely simple system (for lack of a better name) for interacting with various internet services through your favorite instant messenger. No real registration required, just instant message the bot from whatever service you use at its respective address; for example, Gmail and Jabber users would message imified@imified.com. You will be […]
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