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Thanks

Sep 10 2008 / 5:08 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

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Kadoo

Sep 8 2008 / 2:11 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

One of the services listed on the infamous “this sucks” list by Scobleizer, Kadoo is meant for you to share…stuff. This sharing can also be linked to your Facebook account in some fashion which I am not enthused enough to test.  I do not think the site sucks, its just dripping with beta juice.
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EAS: Early Adopter Syndrome

Sep 4 2008 / 11:42 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Most of the people that come across this blog would test positive with Early Adopter Syndrome. (This little hut is probably only known to the people in Linkville and the followers on Friendfeed, its not LAX). Most people try to whittle down logins and passwords down to a handful, yet we keep signing our information away to tons of fly by night establishments that we hope have good intentions.

We deprive ourselves of sleep for days on end, just to catch that last bit of news about something that will not matter to us one way or the other next week. Is the taste of truly breaking in a service that delicious? Why is it that we rush to test things that are obviously still broken, and have to scramble for solutions to a product that did not matter mere moments before?

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Chrome Talk

Sep 1 2008 / 7:16 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

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