28 August 2010, 11:45 am
Diaspora, the open source alternative to Facebook is three weeks away from release.
I’ll give it a shot.
Not that I’m violently opposed to Facebook or its disputed privacy/ownership policies.
Nope, I just want to try out an alternative implementation.
Then again, the blog entry only promises that the code will be available on September 15th, a full-fledged competitor to Facebook won’t be ready.
23 August 2010, 9:10 pm
Depends on the source: Techcrunch for the former, Wired for the latter.
I believe neither.
22 August 2010, 6:58 pm
According to Eric Schmidt it may soon be necessary for a person to change his identity to escape indiscretions permanently available on the web.
16 August 2010, 9:47 pm
I missed the meme of wookieleaks completely, cementing the fact that I’m a very low profile Twitter user.
Incompetence of Imperial Stormtroopers revealed in footage confirming, indeed, “These ARE the droids [we're] looking for.”
9 August 2010, 11:07 pm
Google estimates the number of books in the world to be 129,864,880. Right now librarything contains almost half of that: 54,227,758.
4 August 2010, 11:32 pm
GenCon kicks off today, and the Diana Jones Award “for gaming excellence” will be given out today.
My favorite out of the nominees is Boardgamegeek, the site that set the high level of expectation on gaming-related web databases. The content is complete, the community lively and site just invites wasting copious amounts of time.
31 July 2010, 4:34 pm
Gave lifestream a shot. After all, the service provider’s infrastructure is now capable of running it.
It did aggregate content nicely from quite a few places.
But it also somehow broke the right sidebar in half on all pages, and didn’t provide my facebook-updates at all.
The former would be probably be debuggable and correctible, but the latter seems to be a permanent feature in the new privacy-illusion-providing facebook.
Hence, no lifestream here.
17 July 2010, 10:19 am
Quite an insightful presentation.
8 July 2010, 11:32 pm
The stackoverflow.com empire expands again.
The first three new sites are in beta-testing, with others to follow as the target number of committed users is reached on each.
5 July 2010, 8:04 pm
As the the colorful presentation shows, facebook is now the third largest country in the world.
3 July 2010, 2:42 pm
The Nine Inch Nails frontman has been busy lately on non-NIN activities.
How to Destroy Angels just released their first record, a six song EP.
He will also provide the soundtrack for the upcoming David Fincher film The Social Network, a dramedy about the birth of Facebook.
10 June 2010, 8:49 pm
Nettielämää, a finnish book about online-ish lifestyle has been released free of charge.
10 May 2010, 7:29 pm
Facebook not only volunteers more and more information these days, but actively leaks data to selected partner companies.
9 May 2010, 9:12 pm
As shown in Matt McKeon’s visualization, Facebook has been steadily increasing the default privacy level. The originating post in the EFF blog is nicely given meaning with the visual tooling.
8 May 2010, 9:38 am
Awesomeness abounds when the quintessential eighties movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is played out across twitter and foursquare.
The obvious finnish candidate for this treatment would be Aki Kaurismäki’s Calamari Union.
3 May 2010, 8:23 pm
Gowalla is a location-based social networking game that’s rapidly expanding all over the world.
It resembles waymarking, the cacheless version of geocaching, a lot.
Basically participants use their location-enabled gadgets to log their whereabouts. The social aspect is the effortless ability to let your friends know where you are, the gaming aspect is the potential to visit as many locations as possible. And to create plenty of new locations, since the world is mostly unmarked thus far.
Most of the locations are tagged with a default icon (one per subcategory such as a bar, pharmacy or a park), but the most famous ones get a dedicated symbol. Thus far Finland doesn’t seem to have any, whereas Sweden has accrued already several.
Unlike its slightly more famous counterpart Foursquare, Gowalla works well with the Nokia N900. Originally geolocation had to be enabled with a browser add-on, but these days it works out of the box.
Very much like Foursquare, the Gowalla service rewards progress with badges – testimonials of progress (such as visiting and creating new spots).
15 March 2010, 6:10 pm
Myouterspace sounds like a joke URL, but it is actually a William Shatner-fronted new social network for science fiction fans, authors and artists.
3 March 2010, 9:05 pm
Oh noes, I’ve been ousted from my sole mayorship.
13 February 2010, 6:36 pm
Foursquare‘s invasion of Finland is just beginning. Otherwise I would not have been crowned mayor of Base yesterday.
9 February 2010, 6:29 pm
Stewart Butterfield’s new company, Tiny Speck, has revealed their first product. Glitch looks like a MMO version of Little Big Planet. The site is not very forthcoming with extra details, but some are available in a CNET article.
Zeitgeistily enough, there’s no blog describing the development progress and marketing, only a twitter-account.
1 February 2010, 11:43 pm
First up (and a snippeted of on the right), XKCD’s take on the Mars Rover, now on day 1960+ of its 90 day mission (probably the greatest bargain ever created by NASA).
Second, yet another fine piece from Oatmeal, this time on annoying facebook user stereotypes.
14 January 2010, 9:20 pm
Failbooking provides adequate evidence to despair about the future of humanity (at least the socialnetworking subspecies).
Domestically, the major storm of misunderstanding caused by a sarcastic column has approximately the same effect.
5 December 2009, 12:36 am
Lehmätkin Lentäis is a pleasantly non-sequiturly named finnish blog that concentrates on the social aspects of social media (as opposed to the all too common business side of things).
