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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 [...]

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Fake Follow Is Stupid

Aug 26 2008 / 9:28 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Fake Follow is the social media equivalent of being at a party, running into someone you sort of know, having empty conversation with them before awkwardly being offered their phone number. You write the number down on paper because you intentionally left the phone in the car, and dump your pockets later. Friends shouldn’t let [...]

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Wix Makes It Too Easy

Aug 7 2008 / 1:03 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Wix is a place where you can pimp out a website in a few minutes and make it quite pretty. The only real difference of note between this and other sites like Weebly, is that Wix comes across as if it feels the need to dress up in a new outfit to go to work. [...]

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GoAnimate

Jul 29 2008 / 12:25 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Update per Nicholas of GoAnimate: [We] have a contest going on right now on the website. Any user creating an animation from now until October 1st has a chance to win a US$5,000 cash prize. Well we already love ToonDoo here for the comic panels, but there is another animation site vying for our attention. [...]

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Ning, Kickapps and The Completely Free Stuff

Jul 3 2008 / 7:37 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via Wikipedia Social networks have evolved greatly in the past few years. I find it quite refreshing since they began as a few niche networks that they are working their way back to this model. Back in the origins of Myspace and Bebo and Facebook, many folks signed up to be ahead of the [...]

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Either Get Over Twitter Or Go Running Back Into Its Arms

Jun 30 2008 / 11:58 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via Wikipedia ….but you do not have to keep rattling on about it. We all know my personal stance on Twitter. I have not had the pleasure of introducing new posts the past few days because the only news I can scrounge up is about Twitter, FriendFeed (mostly just comparisons to Twitter), and Doctor [...]

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Facebook Smacks Down Top Friends

Jun 26 2008 / 9:47 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

You may have had the Top Friends application on your Facebook yesterday, but not today. Apparently Slide, the creators of the Top Friends application have committed a coding faux pas. There seems to have been a loophole in the application that allowed users to work their way around the TOS. The application made it possible [...]

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