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Category Archives: Communication

Where is Kyle Shank?

A friend of mine told me that he committed Zucker-cide today. This means he deleted himself from every social network.
The only site that he has left is his tumblelog, kyleshank.com. There, he explains his departure from the web 2.0 world:

This really shocks me because I could not imagine myself taking this approach. Whenever I find [...]

Addicted to social media

Something might be wrong with me. My dream sequences go through imaginary Firefox browsers. I am always thinking about publishing my life online. Maybe cuz it’s so easy?
First thing this morning, I quickly added about 20 photos to Facebook which only took about 5 minutes.
Then I went into Flickr Uploadr, and dragged about 60 photos [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]

Halle is live

Watch halle live video and chat on Justin.tv
Last night, we met Justine Ezarik, one of my favorite lifecasters. At the bar, Halle, Mike, and I took over Justine’s computer, and started to interact with the chatroom.

Today, Halle set up her channel, and she is already pretty popular on Justin.tv. She is a good lifecaster because [...]

Mash is truly interactive

Yahoo! just launched it’s new “social-netorking” site, Mash. It’s basically Facebook, with more customization and the ability to let your friends edit your profile.

You can also customize the CSS any way you’d like. It’s more mature than MySpace, more interactive than Virb, and more interesting than Facebook. I can’t get away from the website.
I love [...]

What is Bacn?

How do you manage your Bacn?

I know you have email folders lettered with bold text followed by a two or three-digit number clogging up your inbox.

Email is our generation’s main form of communication, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up with.
We check it 10 times a day or more, and we are getting better at [...]

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