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Really, Mashable? - November 10th, 2009

Responsible reporting starts with what you choose to report, and turning something as toxic as Facebook games into high-traffic news is beyond ridiculous. Slow days happen, but there are better things to talk about than this garbage.

Tags: facebook, fail, mashable
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking

 

Wave on an iPhone: Shaky, Progressing - November 9th, 2009

No matter what you’ve heard, Wave does work on iPhones. There’s recently been a bit of a murmur about Waveboard, a “client” for Google Wave, and whether or not it’s worth the download. I’m going to say the answer is a technical no. Please, feel free to give it a try for yourselves, but for [...]

Tags: fluid, google, growl, iphone, safari, wave, waveboard
Posted in google, social-networking

 

The End of the World as We Know It - November 6th, 2009

Yep. It really happened. An ad appeared on the Google homepage.  

Tags: ads, droid, google, marketing, verizon
Posted in google

 

[Update: NO] Twitter Lists Now Incorporating TweetDeck Groups? - November 6th, 2009

[UPDATE] Richard Barley, Community Manager for TweetDeck, was kind enough to stop by and clarify the issue last night, via comment. He made assurances that TweetDeck servers are secure, and suggested that the likely culprit here is in fact Brizzly. Apparently, in enacting their own list compatibility, Brizzly caused pre-existing groups to update back on [...]

Tags: fail, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter lists
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking, twitter

 

Why Twitter Lists Don't Make Sense - November 5th, 2009

This week has been utterly ruined by the uproarious debut of Twitter’s new Lists feature, and if you can’t already tell — I don’t like them. Here’s the issue with lists: They’re unnecessary. A Twitter list is nothing more than a group column in Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop. Only, these are meant to be public, [...]

Tags: fail, ft. hood, mashable, media, ny times, twitter, twitter lists
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

AOL /SLASHCONTROL: More Like /SLASHFAIL - November 4th, 2009

I came across this steaming pile of fail today, and couldn’t resist the urge to say something about it. /SLASHCONTROL, or /CTRL, or /C, or however else you may find it badged, appears to be AOL’s newest and most pathetic venture into new and exciting world of Hulu ripoffs. AOL is a highly transparent company, [...]

Tags: aol, fail, hulu, video
Posted in fail

 

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