While we still dig the idea of what Disqus does, it is about time for us to reevaluate the necessity of it. To be honest, it was installed in an attempt to gain conversation. When conversation did not happen, it didn’t bother me that no one was talking, but it felt like we put this [...]
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Social Media Reactions
A little while back the folks at Mashable teamed up the Disqus guys and UberVU to amp up the Disqus commenting system. The goal of Disqus and UberVU was for the blogger to get the discussion back at the blogs and not just spread out over the social media sites. It was a lovely idea [...]
Fake Follow Is Stupid
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 [...]
Either Get Over Twitter Or Go Running Back Into Its Arms
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 [...]
Facebook Smacks Down Top Friends
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 [...]
Disqus Comments
Spam annoyed me so much that I signed up for Disqus comments. It seems promising and much more interactive. I tried Intense Debate and Sez Who on my other blogs. To a non-pleasant outcome. Intense Debate refused to install correctly on a blog freshly installed to the server, with no plugins. Sez Who installed easily [...]
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