First it was the curse of the fail whale, and then hackers took on the identity of pop singer Britney Spears and President Barack Obama. Then the curse of the twitter clones which impersonated nearly everyone you could think of. Then yesterday it was reported that actress and pop star Miley Cyrus had her twitter account hacked and suspended. All of these things raise the question, when is enough, enough? Let me start by saying I love twitter, I check…
In what has recently seemed like a decrease in user activity it appears that Plurk is trying to change its image a little. When I head over to the social site this morning to login I was greeted with this new home page layout. But is it enough, and did they really come up with a new design that is really going to attract new users? It’s always been my opinion that the one thing Plurk fails to do is…
If there’s one thing that keeps my day flowing its music in my headphones; be it through my Zune, Pandora, or streaming a local radio station. My Zune mysteriously lost all its juice shortly after I made it in the office today so I decided to stream KROQ’s Roq of the 80’s station for a change. The streaming station plays in a small player developed by the stations parent company CBS, and has a nice little interface that tells you…
With Twitter becoming more and more popular with businesses and individuals I thought I would take a moment to share an innovative way I have seen twitter used recently. Many of you probably aren’t familiar with the dark subculture event Bats Day in the Fun Park. The annual event, which celebrated its 10 year anniversary last year started with a small group of about 80 dark subculture scenesters going to Disneyland and has grown into what is being called the…
Ever since it blew up on Twitter back in June of this year I have been an avid user of the microblogging site Plurk. At the beginning I had my qualms with Plurk, but in the end I wound up using Plurk probably just as much, if not more than Twitter. Following the first month of using the service I did a post about Plurk’s karma rewards and how I felt that many of their perks were useless. One in…