Posts Tagged With: MySpace
· June 11, 2008 at 6:05 am · Writing Advice
As a writer, going out and reading other people’s content out there from time to time is enough to make me want to run off to a deserted island never to be heard or seen from again. Now I am far from perfect, but time after time I see the same offenders when it comes to copy and headline writing. Need some examples?
Networking Junkies - You know the type. They are those people who join every single social network out there, and all they have on their page is enlarged Hanna Montana fan-made glitter signs and copy that reads, “THIZ is MY MY MYSAPCE DuDeZ! CoMES OUT AND LetS DO THE PARTY! WHOOOO!”
Firefox Add-ons - Just when you think you have found the Firefox extension that will solve all your problems, you go to read more about it and the description goes something like this…
“This tool lets you copy the video from the Youtubez.”
Come on, you spent month after month working on this great Firefox add-on and the only thing you can give me as the user, trying to sell me on your download is two sentences?
Carbon Copy Web Hosts - A good majority of the copy on web hosts’ web pages are just stolen from the guy down the street. Copy and paste is too easy of a task for these guys, and come on, what do you expect? They are trying to keep the three customers they have happy who happened to mistake them for somebody important.
Social News Headlines - For an example on this one, go to Digg.com and check out any headline on the page. Enough said. Ok, that in itself if the main problem here. Not only do they give us a crappy headline, then they try to sell us on the point that their headline did all the work. Come on diggeruzer987, the headline does not say it all!
So do you agree with me yet? If you can think of anymore copyrighting offenders please feel free to let us all know in the comments.
· June 10, 2008 at 5:26 am · Online Tools
With the many video search helpers out there, it is hard to find one that works and works well. That is where VideoFetcher comes into play. Using a search box, an iframe and a little imagination they have come up with a good way to search multiple video hosting sources for material.
Now they don’t win any points for being the best looking service, the design is a ‘bit ugly and bland. The concept though, of having just about every search provider for video on the left and your results on the right is one that works.
You can also add them to your search bar too in the browser to have easy access to the searching. VideoFetcher is worth a shot if your find yourself browsing around the video sites in your spare time.
· March 13, 2008 at 7:44 am · Hot Web Topics, Online Tools
I have been sharing a lot of my posts and articles on MySpace lately to get a few more interested readers coming in, and after a long search I ran into one problem. Yes, MySpace has the "Post to MySpace" feature now that makes sharing URLs from other non-MySpace sites easier. The problem is nobody has written a bookmarklet for it yet.
Well, that was the case till I figured I would give it a shot. Drag and drop think link on to your bookmarks toolbar:
Add to MySpace!
To cover all my bases, here is what you do - depending on the browser you use:
Firefox - Drag and drop the above link to your bookmarks toolbar or right-click the link and select "bookmark this link".
Internet Explorer - Right click on the link above, and select "add to favorites".
Safari - Drag and drop the link to your bookmarks toolbar.
I hope this helps out anybody else looking to quickly share interesting articles and sites with your friends and stalkers on MySpace. If anybody wishes to be my bud - you can find my MySpace profile and add me there!
· February 28, 2008 at 9:24 am · Web Development
How does it go again, if you can’t beat them - join them? How about copying them instead? There seem to be a lot of clone scripts out there for some of the more popular destinations on the Web.
Attack of the Web 2.0 Clones!
* = need to pay for it
** = not really a clone, is the software used to run Wikipedia
See, even you can run your own Web 2.0 masterpiece! All you need is a little time, a solid hosting account and your own origional take, version or spin on the already popular idea.
· November 19, 2007 at 6:38 am · Online Tools, Personal
Here are the social tools I use thus far in the order that I use them (from least to most). I do my best to try everything, but these are some that I have actually signed up for and used.
Flickr - I really need to get back into photography, guess I can’t blame this one on Yahoo or Flickr. It is my fault I can’t find time to pick up the ol’ camera.
MyBlogLog - This used to be really active and exciting - well, until everybody wanted to be friends with everybody and I started getting messages from threatening strippers.
Pownce - * See MyBlogLog (really don’t even visit this much anymore)
LinkedIn - I am amazed I use Linkedin as much as I do. At first, it was just a kind of MySpace for “grown ups” but now it is a useful tool to get in contact with some of the movers and shakers in the hosting industry.
Twitter - I like to skim through Twitter a few times a day, and I do have to say even though I wasn’t a believer at first I really like this tool for a lot of reasons. I sipped the Kool-aid, and I like the taste.
Facebook - This is another one of those tools that I probably should spend more time playing with but I don’t. Login once a day, skim through the news feed - put I promise I’ll change, well perhaps.
MySpace - I hate MySpace to death, but since I know more people on it than anywhere else I am stuck with it. Kind of like the old girlfriend you know has done you wrong but you keep coming back because the other girls just don’t look at you the same way. Oh yeah, and the strippers on MySpace are friendlier.
Am I missing out on one? I like to get everything a shot - but with a dozen coming out daily it is hard to try them all. Maybe I should just start up a Ning! network for one of my projects and be done with it?
· August 3, 2007 at 7:05 am · Online Tools, Web Development
Once reason that I like Facebook over MySpace is that it makes it pretty easy for Facebook to just update itself. I don’t have to step in an actually post things of interest when it reads my RSS feed pretty easily.
To get this done all you need to do is login to Facebook and then find on the left sidebar your “Notes” application. Now you should see your friends’ notes and what they have posted or imported in. Next you’ll need to look for the “Import a Blog” link.
In good ol’ cooking show fashion I have an RSS feed all ready to plug in from our creating an ego feed with Yahoo! Pipes tutorial that has been pushed through FeedBurner. Now put your RSS feed address into the box marked “Web URL”. Click the check mark, hit the “Start Importing” button and you are ready to go.
Now all of your Facebook friends can keep up to date with you via your notes section. Need a friend? Feel free to add me!
