Tag Archive for 'Facebook'

Twitter

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Simon
on May 28, 2008
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I just registered a Twitter account, if only to make sure I got my username before someone else does, known as “land grabbing” - some say this Twitter lark is the new Facebook but I’m not so sure. Maybe I’ll use it, maybe I won’t. It’s pointless without anybody to follow or be followed by..

In other web 2.0 news, I’ve stopped uploading photos to Facebook because the 60 photos per album limit is just annoying. I’m moving over to Flickr for random photo uploads from my phone, using ShoZu of course.. So, check out my photo stream.

Blog integration of both Twitter and Flickr to come when I can bothered setting it all up!

Widsets

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Simon
on April 24, 2008
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Widsets is another application I have found on my travels. It’s a Java based thing which gives you a dashboard onto which you can put different widgets added either from the dashboard itself or via the website.

The strange thing is, I’d have thought this would have taken off a lot more than it has. There isn’t even a widget for Facebook which you’d perhaps expect. There’s a few mini-games like Sudoku, Minesweeper and that Helicopter game. There are a hand full of one-site RSS readers, like the BBC News one or the Techcrunch one. But apart from those few, nothing really jumps out as being amazingly useful or interesting..

It’s pretty slow to load up and slows down again in order to connect to the Internet to see if you’ve picked any more widgets since you last loaded it and to update the content of the RSS readers. It seems like a bit of a let down all in all. Oh well..

P.S. I finished writing this a couple of nights ago and scheduled the post to be published automatically. At the time of publishing, I’ll be at Alton Towers ;)

Facebook Find

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Simon
on April 5, 2008
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Time for the first of many rants on sionide.net, inspired after finding this rather interesting little gem on Facebook…

http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook

and I wish more people knew about it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been invited to those ridiculous groups where some bumbling fool has lost or had their mobile stolen or dropped it down the toilet and so requires everyone’s phone numbers. If you ever want to have a drunken laugh prank calling people at 4am, go on Facebook search for “phone numbers” and narrow the search to Groups only. Displaying 1 - 10 out of over 500 group results for: phone numbers Yes, people actually post their supposedly private phone numbers on publicly available web pages?! Dial 141 followed by a random phone number and tell whoever picks up they’re an idiot for posting their number on Facebook.

Years ago, you’d need to purchase an odd looking gadget to backup the contents of your sim card. These days, phones are smart, they can connect to the Internet and back themselves up! But I appreciate not everyone is going to bother with backing up.
So if everyone used the built-in mobile phonebook feature of Facebook, put their mobile numbers on their profile and restricted that information to Friends Only (assuming, of course, people don’t actually friend randoms) then the world social network would be a much better place.