“ Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!
Dom Perignon, at the moment he discovered champagne.
guess what.
there’s gotta be something wrong with loving supernatural this much, right?
yumbology.com!
Fuckin’ hilarious. The end.
Watch Gene Kelly get totally OWNED by Fred Astaire.
Thankfully for my childhood memories, this only ever happened once.
Random thoughts at midnight...
watching rage, and seriously… why are all the really messed up lead singers so attractive? (craig nicholls anyone?)
This man should not be attractive. But I promise you, you look through enough photos, and you’ll find a thousand more hits than misses.
This is truly baby’s first rofl.
Web 2.0: A User's Rant.
In my continued search for the perfect social networking/blogging/community/web 2.0 website, I’ve finally appeared on tumblr. I’ve already found that I like it a lot. I like the layout, how simple and easy it feels to use, how it’s intuitive and just makes sense the instant I see it, and I can already tell that, really, even if it gets a thousand new features, it’s just great the way it is.
The downfall, however (one that lies in most web 2.0 sites that aren’t Facebook), is that everyone I know doesn’t use it. For a moment I thought I’d found the right thing in Twitter - something I could update (or micro-update) via my phone, which I think is fucking awesome - but nobody uses it, and the direct messages are constantly fucking up on Flock. It’s nothing to do with the site, really; it works just fine. The trouble is that nobody uses it.
And that’s maybe what gets me about web 2.0. You can have the most spectacular ideas in the world - imagine you, as a user, writing down a list of functionalities and things you wanted and the look-and-feel you loved and having them all implemented and it all working wonderfully and miraculously well - but if nobody is using a social networking website… well, it’s completely useless. That’s really why Myspace was able to get away with it for so long - why so many websites get away with shit, I mean just look at LiveJournal - because it’s really only when a site catches onto a need before everyone realizes it that something can be big.
The promise of web 2.0 sometimes comes across as serious integration. You can do the same thing to a host of different websites with the click of a button. I have an application to update the status messages of three social networking sites and two chat applications at once. My browser is a powerful tool allowing me to see new media feeds by my friends through all the social networking sites (as well as the less-conventional networking on Flickr and YouTube), subscribe to various feeds, post blogs, make note of websites and keep track of my Facebook and Twitter friends in a sidebar. The amount I can submit to the ether is amazing. I can tell everyone, everywhere, what I’m thinking or doing, without even looking at their websites. So it’s integrated, sure.
Even if I do get notifications in my browser, to my email, via IM or messaged to my phone… I still have to check five different websites. I really want one, where I can go and find out everything that’s going on. Where I can see who has made friends on Facebook, where Myspace bulletins come in, where LJ posts are kept, where my YouTube buddies’ new updates are listed, where I can check out new photos from my Flickr contacts. And from there I can submit to as many sites as I want: I have a video? I can opt to post it to YouTube, Facebook, and Google videos all with the same upload form. Photos? Same deal. Blog entries? Put them everywhere.
Now is that so much to ask, mssr. web 2.0?
This is what I’ve been waiting for.
