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Is Facebook Ruining Your Life(stream)? Comments

Note: This has been cross-posted from one of my other blogs. Yes, I have another blog. No, you can’t see it. It’s private.

If Facebook wants my identity, it’s going to need to make some changes.

OpenID

Have you noticed that a lot of websites are giving users the option of logging in with Facebook Connect? In fact, I just implemented this feature when I switched from Intense Debate to Disqus (for the laymen, these are comment systems). It looks like Facebook is trying to become OpenID. I would much rather Facebook just adopted OpenID instead.

The Feeds Don’t Feed

Facebook seems to be gravitating towards lifestreaming. I have a problem with that. I don’t need Facebook to be a lifestreaming platform because I already have a lifestreaming platform—namely FriendFeed—and unlike Facebook, it plays well with others. Friendfeed works with the feeds that each of my services (YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, et al.) already generate, and from them it creates a new, universal feed (the eponymous “friend feed”). Facebook is simply becoming a redundant service that lacks the oh so necessary RSS or Atom feeds. In other words, there is my entire interconnected internet presence, and then there is a separate Facebook presence, and Facebook keeps these worlds apart. That is a very dated and frustrating way of doing things.

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April 13, 2009 – 12:26 pm
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Fruits of My Internetting Comments

How do I respond to being overstressed? Apparently, I lock myself in my room and Internet for hours. But you know what? I learned a lot today. So you don’t have to spend those same hours, here are the highlights:

Use a Plus Sign to Make Google Search for the Friggin Thing You Told it To
No, I didn’t mean “text,” you jerk, I meant “texter!” Why won’t you listen to me? What works: +texter

Texter
If you code at all, or simply type the same things over and over again. I use it for a lot of common HTML tags now, and it has taken a lot of pain out of blogging. Just make sure to turn auto-spell-correcting off. I hate that.

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March 9, 2009 – 7:01 pm
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Updates, Chrome, ChaCha, Netflix Comments

A brief update

  • I recently found myself some consistent employment working evenings at a candy shop. It’s a lot of fun; (almost) everyone who comes in is happy, because, you know, they’re in a candy shop.
  • This weekend I will be moving into my new apartment with three new room mates, one of which is a very old friend of mine, as well as a Modeus Designs collaborrator. The new place will be much closer to campus, and will have a higher bathroom-to-occupant ratio.
  • As I was planning out my classes for this quarter, I discovered I wasn’t as finished with my religious studies minor as I thought. I still need to take one more class. Luckily, I should still be able to graduate on time in the Spring. Good thing I double-checked! I’m actually happy about this, because I really wanted to take another religion class this year.
  • I’ve been playing with wikis lately. I set up two of my own, and have been learning a lot about how to work them. Now I feel I have something new to add to my resume.

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September 2, 2008 – 10:11 pm
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Sources of Inspiration Comments

Inspiration comes from everything. Here are a few things that have inspired me recently.

Images

FFFFound.com is a wonderful image bookmarking site. There’s always some crazy-cool stuff on display there. Among my favorite finds on FFFOUND! are these retro-future pieces.

Another favorite source of inspiration is surreal paintings. When viewing a surreal piece, one’s brain is forced to perform the creative act of making sense of the image. ZuzaFun.com has some surreal works of Jacek Yerka online that perfectly demonstrate what I’m talking about. View them, and pay attention to how you respond to what you’re viewing.

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May 6, 2008 – 6:00 pm
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Lifehacker Tribute: The Software List Comments

Lifehacker is one of the best blogs out there. Go. Subscribe. I think that’s all the introduction they need.

The thing about Lifehacker is that they basically make me download a lot of software. By now, I’ve accumulated many Lifehacker-advised applications that I could never give up. In honor of Lifehacker, here are five applications that you need as well. Most of these have been featured on Lifehacker.

Launchy

Every real nerd knows that keyboards can usually be faster than mice. But in the realm of program launching on a Windows OS, the keyboard has been usurped. I mean, who’s really going to use “Run” instead of the programs menu? But no longer. Taking a cue from the Mac OS, Launchy brings the task of quickly launching applications back to the keyboard where it belongs.

I don’t know how I ever lived without it.

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February 3, 2007 – 6:44 pm
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