After Yahoo! posted on their corporate blog their acquisition of Xoopit, I am still reeling about them closing GeoCities. This is insane! Not only that, but they failed to even mention ANYWHERE in their corporation blog about the closing. Literally millions used Yahoo! GeoCities free hosting. October 26, 2009 is the official closing day and
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Teens Are Not Using Twitter? Yeah, right!
TechCrunch posted Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe. While I can understand why some are not, this is not the case. Anyone on Twitter witness the junk @dfizzy and his friends spread throughout Twitter, between June 5th through June 11th,2009. Teens ARE using twitter, but in a way that Twitter was not
[Continue Reading...]Since The Recent Askimet Update
I have noticed more alerts from my Askimet plugin since the recent update in their plugin and the WordPress 2.8.1 upgrade. Basically, the notice usually says that there are issues and it might be a firewall problem. However, I have never had issues with this before. I checked with the technician of my servers and
[Continue Reading...]What Happened to Twitter Love, TweeterAttack?
I am disappointed… not the usual ‘kind of’, but full out disappointed. I recently saw a tweet go throw my stream from a user who was on TweeterAttack. Out of respect, I am not saying who did it. However, it was okay to friendly ‘buy’ your followers, but to attack them. Come on! After experiencing
[Continue Reading...]Yahoo!GeoCities – Why Get Rid of a Good Thing?
I know it is a couple months old, but being me, some things need some cool off time, like why in the world is Yahoo! closing Geocities? Believe me, I did need the time. I had to go out of my way to go and download old files before I forgot. Being me, October 2009
[Continue Reading...]An Afterthought: Twitter Verified Accounts
With threats to sue last in June 2009 from people like the St. Louis Cardinal’s manager, Tony La Russa, Twitter has come up with verified accounts. Mashable was among the many that reported on this change after Twitter introduce the verified account feature and their reaction to the increasing impersonation attempts. Right now, verified accounts
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