Social avatars

When it comes to social network avatars, there have been loads of different hypes. Everyone have  manga avatar today. But I will here by claim I was the first one to use brilliant yearbookyourself.com for a new kind of avatar and it has spread widely. Well, it started to spread, then the guys behind the website decided to take it offline until this summer. A mistake that probably hurt a lot. It should hurt a lot.  

I WAS THE FIRST ONE, NO NEED TO ARGUE!

Filed under: Internet, Social networking, avatars

A nightly social overload

You know when you have things on your mind and you just can’t get it out of your head? When you keep contemplating, keep analyzing it over and over again? I did that last night. For hours and hours. And what was it that made me unble to sleep? Social fracking media! I was planning my blog, I was thinking about Friendfeed and Twitter and I tried to come up with new ideas for new services. And it annoyed the hell out of me! I didn’t want to do this thinking now, I wanted to sleep!

Filed under: Criticism, Social overload

The failsnail is up – Twisten down!

The “tweet your music service” Twisten.fm is down. And the snail is on the loose!

Filed under: Microblogging, Social networking, Social overload, Twisten.fm, Twitter

Sweden’s second biggest city Rick Roll’d

66,000 users, students and workers, using the education network in Gothenburg, Sweden, were in for a surprise this morning. Someone had hacked the Lotus Notes based system,  and everyone who logged in were greeted by the Rick Astley video, “Never gonna give you up”. The incident has been reported to the police.

via IDG

Filed under: Internet, News, Rick Roll, Sweden

Spotify signs deal with INgrooves

It is Christmas for those of you who are interested in the independent music scene as Spotify signs a deal with one of the biggest digital media distributors, INgrooves. INgrooves is already providing services such as iTunes, Zune and Napster with their library containing around 250,000 tracks. And now it is time for the Spotify users to get a taste of it! Great news, by all means. Among the artists and record labels that will be avaliable are Dolly Parton, record label Bedrock, producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold and John Digweed, Armand van Helden and Cary Brothers, to name a few.

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Filed under: Internet, News, Technology, Spotify