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A Twitition: Ban Comic Sans - October 30th, 2009

I signed a twitition earlier, which is basically a petition signed by twitter account. The subject? Comic Sans: “These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.” The twitition is currently being passed around, and is extremely low on signatures. I don’t expect it [...]

Tags: comic sans, fonts, lol, twitter, win
Posted in lol, microsoft, social-networking

 

@Names: The Internet's New Handles? - September 11th, 2009

[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]

Tags: adium, AIM, facebook, fail, IM, pidgin, twitter
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

Trashing Up Twitter (more): Donald Trump?? - September 10th, 2009

Image via Twitter Search I’ve recently noticed a disparaging spike in twitter spam, and while that’s pretty much normal in and of itself, this time it’s different. Donald Trump seems to be named in at least one spam-tweet every minute, and it’s only getting worse. So, I got curious.

Tags: donald trump, fail, spam, twitter
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking

 

Social Media Pushers on Twitter: Here's a Tip. - August 5th, 2009

Treating social-networking sites or services such as Facebook and Twitter as nothing more than tools may get your clients a modest amount of pageviews, but it’s really only making you the telemarketers of the Internet. That’s it. Nothing more.

Tags: facebook, fail, social-media, social-network, twitter, web
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking

 

Facebook: "Misleading Rumors" About Ads - July 29th, 2009

Sometime recently this message began popping up whenever a user visits the Facebook Ads section of their Facebook Privacy Settings. It’s dressed up to be some sort of reassurance to paranoid individuals, but to me it looks like a blatant insult to anyone aware of the original issue, as well as a statement calling myself [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, privacy, web
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

Google Latitude for iPhone - July 27th, 2009

A few days ago, Google quietly released their newest web app for the iPhone, Latitude. We’d been waiting for what seemed like forever, and in fact many had lost hope that it would ever get ported over to iPhone at all. With Google’s new round of upgrades to their mobile sites (and the iPhone being [...]

Tags: apple, google, iphone, latitude
Posted in google, news, social-networking

 

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