Maybe There Is Hope For MySpace…
April 20th, 2008
Just when I pretty much abandon the platform completely, I read about this. My biggest beef with MySpace (besides the fact that it’s buggy, not secure, and doesn’t play well with Macs) has always been the closed architecture and refusal to accept what the Web 2.0 community wants: control. But here Tom goes surprising me by actually opening some of his stuff up to developers.
First, it was the ability to edit my status with the service hellotxt (which is awesome, btw). That disappeared for a bit, only to start working again a few days later. Not enough to keep MySpace as my primary social network, mind you, but a step in the right direction. Now what MySpace needs is the ability to post blogs from external editors (and preferrably, be able to export that content later…as I’ve recently learned, copy/paste is not the most efficient nor fun way to move your blog from one place to another), and then on to the dream of every social networking netizen out there: be able to sync up items like favorite movies and relationship status from a centralized manager. Update once, and it spits the info out to facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc. One can only dream.
So then I read this article that explains how my new favorite web browser, Flock, will be adding MySpace compatibility sometime within the near future. This is awesome, because as I type this, I’m doing so using the built in blogging tool on Flock after which I can choose to send this to various locations. In fact, I’ll be posting this to notbadbutgood, my personal blog, and for the first post in a long, long time, xanga. Crossing my fingers, there is the possibility that the MySpace compatibility the article speaks of may include blogging. I can then blog on MySpace again! Write once, post everywhere has been my dream since I started doing this blogging stuff.
Of course that means that the several days it took me to copy/paste my entire MySpace blog to blogger were kind of a waste of time. Although, I did get pretty speedy with the “command-c, command-v” keyboard combos. So there is a purpose to everything danial san. Wax on, wax off.
Tags: myspace, hellotxt, notbadbutgood, blogging, xanga, blogger, flock, open source, centralized profile management, identity management, social networking
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my first foray into macjournal…and hellotxt
April 8th, 2008
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…
That?s the sound of relief. After SO many hours of manually exporting blogs from my MySpace, I’ve finally done it. I’ve separated my blogging universe into three separate blogs: notbadbutgood (this one, in case you haven?t noticed), Red House (my film blog, and incidentally, my film production site), and a blogger one for friends and family (if you want that one, just ask me for it).
It just so happens that I’m typing this post on some fancy new desktop software called MacJournal. Well, it’s new to me…and I don’t technically own it yet. I’ve been wanting a good offline editor for some time to work on my posts and keep them organized, and this here is my first test. So stick around if you care as each of these posts will probably be kind of like a review as well. Maybe if the gumption hits me, I’ll blog about which one I chose and why later on.
But this post isn?t about that really. No, this post is to let you know about hellotxt. This fun tool is awesome if you?re like me and you?re trying to maintain several social networks at once. Specifically, it updates the ?status? thing that twitter so wonderfully pioneered and has since been replicated by nearly everyone else. Feels good to be the first, don?t it twitter?
So it’s a web-based microblogging tool that spits out whatever you put in there to tons of different sites. MySpace, facebook, twitter, Pownce…if you can think of it, it’s probably there. Saves TONS of time. What I don’t get is why twitter and hellotxt don?t merge. I mean seriously, if I could twitter and it gets spit out like hellotxt style? Dang.
The only downsides that I’ve found with hellotxt is that yes, it’s truly web based. No widgets or ability to post from other devices like IM. There is a mobile browser version that is semi-reliable on my BlackBerry, though admittedly I haven’t tested it on other phones/devices. It keeps giving me http errors, so I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that I’m using a WAP dealio. Or maybe I’m full of it and it has nothing to do with that.
Bottom line…hellotxt rocks the house dope if you need to update your status across several of your social networks.
Best part? Yeah, it’s free.
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returning soon
November 27th, 2007
Ahh yes…we’ve been taking a break. Very little can explain other than we’re lazy bums without the common decency to keep up a blog. We deserve to be drawn, quartered, whipped repeatedly and drug through the streets by wild dogs.
So it’s time to get back on the horse and start writing again. Posts will abound! Mirth and ecstasy will be plentiful! And you will have all of the pointless musings your heart could ask for!
Tomorrow.
Disclaimer: if any of you have family or friends or you yourself have been drawn, quartered, whipped repeatedly and drug through the streets by wild dogs, you have our humblest apologies for being so insensitive. We did not mean to refer to anyone specifically by that overly violent analogy.
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new technorati profile
May 27th, 2007
Just a note to let ya’ll know we got our shiny new Technorati Profile. Enjoy.
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the new and improved blog
May 1st, 2007
Well, I’ve made my decision. I choose complicated.
Let’s face it. If I truly didn’t want people to read my stuff - or if I couldn’t care less one way or the other - I wouldn’t blog, I’d journal. Well, I do journal…I also blog. And from now on, I blog on notbadbutgood.com. What made me decide to start a more “official” blog to challenge me to be a better writer and hopefully share useful stuff with more people. It’s more blog-centric (obviously) than MySpace and includes rad tools like posting directly from my phone or email.
So this, my friends will be dangross Blog Central. Read the rest of this entry »
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