Showing all posts tagged "2011"
Morning People
What is the desire, the need, to make others aware of their Morning Person status? There is no doubt in my mind that the inspiration for all the various statuses and tweets along the lines of: "What a beautiful morning, a nice hour of yoga and I’m so ready to attack today! #GettinThatWormBro" is simply to make the rest of us feel bad as we stand, comatose, in front of our coffee machines. I hate you, social networking-capable morning person. You are the worst part of waking up. You are the Anti-Folgers.
Posted on October 11, 2011
Posted on October 11th, 2011
Facebook Is Terrible
"Our solution was to create a new place that’s lighter-weight where you can see lighter-weight stuff—that’s how we came up with Ticker." If you translate "lighter-weight" to boring, you’ll understand what Zuckerberg is saying: Facebook now has a place on its site reserved especially for boring updates.
Posted on September 23, 2011
Posted on September 23rd, 2011
Bead Deals
me: omg Adam. i just got a Groupon.
Adam: ? FOR?
me: for $10 OFF… a BEADING CLASS… OR BEADING SUPPLIES
Adam: BEST
me: AT BEAD GIRL ON LINE
Adam: YES
me: BEAD GIRL ONLINE
Adam: LET’S SPEND $10 MORE ON BEADS THAN WE NORMALLY WOULD AND NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT
Posted on August 24, 2011
Posted on August 24th, 2011
Definitely Leppard
I love the interlude in this song where classical musical starts playing and the lead singer snarls: "Turn it off! That ain’t my scene." Yeah! Turn off that shitty Mozart or whatever. Let’s listen to some Def Leppard instead.
Def Leppard, "Let’s Get Rocked"; 10 Terrible Songs That I Love on Thought Catalog
Posted August 2011
Posted on August 22nd, 2011
Torment
You definitely tormented your parents, regardless of whether they were divorced or not, because you know, you were a person, with so many feelings, that they didn’t understand. If you survived a 90s puberty, you probably spent a lot of time genuinely believing the whole world revolved around you, vowing to stick it to the man, and wallowing in your angst.
Posted on August 9, 2011
Posted on August 9th, 2011
Lacey Cakes
I love when things I love come together like this. (via Lacey Cameo Cupcakes « The Cupcake Blog)
Posted on August 7, 2011
Posted on August 7th, 2011
New York, New York
Posted on August 3rd, 2011
Goldfish
Can’t stop sharing this video. Sharing it on ALLOFTHETHINGS! Goldfish - We Come Together (OFFICIAL) (by Goldfishlive)
Posted on July 24, 2011
Posted on July 24th, 2011
Boy Was I Wrong
Google Plus is Google, Plus
Here were some of my first thoughts on Google+:
- "Hey, it looks kind of like Facebook, but prettier!"
- "Hey, you can share things on it like Facebook, but with different circles of people. Or just one person. Like Gmail!"
- "Hey, wait, what the fuck is a circle? How do I add people?"
- "Hey, alright, I get it. Now I’ve got people in my circle, so how do I share things with them?"
- "Hey, okay, so I post things into this box and hit send to specific groups of people… really like Gmail."
- "Hey, neat, it uses Gchat so I can chat with people… like Gmail."
- "Hey, so it’s… like facebooktwittergmail? Why do I want this?"
Then I spent four hours on Google+.
Because of the integration with Google’s new topbar, I can absolutely see this being Google’s first successful social media venture. The topbar runs across all of Google’s services. If you’ve embraced the new "Preview" theme, as I have, in Gmail, then the Plus UI is mimicked. Regardless, I’ve been told that notifications still appear in your Gmail interface. So whether you’re in your Gmail inbox or Googling something, your Plus notifications will appear in the topbar, and you can reply to them without ever leaving the service you’re using. You simply click your notification and reply to comments or see your tags, and then go right back to what you’re doing. It’s a brilliant idea, beautifully executed.
And so are the circles, because they recognize your want to share different things with different groups of people, and they make them easy to access and understand. By building in circles as a necessity, rather than a "feature" like Facebook’s "lists", you’re organizing your friends in a way that makes sense, right off the bat. No one uses Facebook "lists", but everyone will use Circles - because they have to. This will allow for increased privacy and ease of sharing, two things which Facebook users constantly complain about not having. Granted, the settings are there with Facebook, but in my experience most people find them overly complicated, and difficult to figure out. Settings should be intuitive, and major props go to Google+ for giving the user control without really making them feel like they have to take any extra steps.
The app for android is also pretty spiffy, and while I personally don’t want to "Hangout" with my contacts in video-chat windows of (up to) 10 people, I understand why some might find that feature desirable. It also integrates with Google Chat, so all your chat contacts are already available to you in your sidebar. Which is great, because I am an avid user of Google Chat, and pretty much shun all other chat alternatives.
Final thoughts: Yes, this isn’t really different from Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter (or any/all combinations thereof). But the interface is clean, pretty and easy to use, the integration with other Google products is tight but not pushy (unlike Buzz), and social media is fun.
Posted on July 3, 2011
Posted on July 3rd, 2011
Complaining on the Internet
Note from 2022 Rachel: Love that I thought I should complain about not getting credit for something I didn't make.
About a week ago, I posted a photo. Cut to 616 "notes" on said photo, and literally all of them seem to link back to the first reblog, TumblrBot.
I love you TumblrBot, but the reblogs crowd my inbox with email notifications, and I don’t even end up with attribution for posting the content. Also, the source link, which was Nedroid, seems to be gone on all the reblogs.
There’s no real point to this post, I just think it’s sort of lame.
Posted on June 24, 2011
Posted on June 24th, 2011