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For me but not for thee

Draginol — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 4:32:22 PM -0400

Has anyone ever noticed that people, with pride, will often say that they would choose X over Y even if it were easier to get rich (or richer) if they chose Y but when they read about someone else doing the same they’re shocked?

Twitter fails still for me

Draginol — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 6:16:59 PM -0500

Twitter still strikes me as not having enough meat. I like blogs. It’s a pity we were never able to get a more consistent blog format because I think there’s a market niche still to be filled by something that easily supports small articles.

I am a creature of Cyberspace

Frogboy — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 8:38:35 AM -0400

If there were 100 people selected at random, 90 of them would have no idea what I mean in this post. 5 of them would understand and find it bizarre. I am a creature of the virtual. Before there was an Internet there were BBSes. The physical world, for me, has always largely just been the place that requires me to move my carcass between terminals to get back into the real world. In another decade or two, it won’t be “the Internet” but something beyond it where I think more and m...

The web as a social network

Kazriko — Thu, 13 May 2010 7:10:55 PM -0400

They make a good case, http://gizmodo.com/5537502/diaspora-the-student+made-privacy+respecting-facebook-alternative , trying to replace facebook using a distributed network of sites. Of course, others have rightly stated that really, the web is already a social network. There's tons of sites for doing individual pieces of what facebook needs. The main problem I see with that vision is that it doesn't seem like we have unified privacy and access controls across sites. I can publish...

Look at my new contests entries

1MrPaul1 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 9:18:32 PM -0400

My another contests entries. If you like my customization work, see on my art too. First contest called "DREAM". And you may support me on this contest if have deviantart account. If you don't have it, just look at my pictures, maybe it will be interesting for you. better look this picture on my deviantart profile here http://gucalovpavel.deviantart.com/art/Dream-Imagine-Create-CONTEST-146114269 Second contest about apocalypse, full picture also on my deviant art page...

Arrrggghhh! JU's Site's still too Wonky!

foreverserenity — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 7:07:51 AM -0500

I took time from my reading and responding because JU is doing it to me again! For the last month I've been having problems with the site, on and off. I accepted this because I know it gets busy and with all the new stuff being done, sometimes things don't work right. For example, not being able to respond, being asked to log in when I'm already logged in. Being kicked off when I'm logged in, and other zany things I can't remember. It is becoming an irritating itch now because to ...

Can You Digg It? International Talk like a Pirate Day, Sept 19

esg-designs — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:50:35 AM -0400

Hello again! Welcome back to the show (podcasts to come in the future - watch the show on There coming Spring 2006). A few things for you today. First up is Digg.com Digg.com I have a website dedicated to all things Digg and what happens on there (and it can get pretty exciting on there... almost entertaining in fact... take a look at this post on Mac Fanboys) Every so often, I select a few diggs that I want to highlight for what ever reason... boredom, excitmen...

Forum Tips & Tricks

Frogboy — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:39:12 AM -0400

Welcome to Brad's tips on how to use the new forums. The new Stardock forums are custom developed based on the needs and uses of our customers. Over the years, we have experimented with many different layouts with varying degrees of success. Background The 2006 Stardock forums have many advantages over previous generations: Bandwidth - they use about 1/4th the bandwidth of previous forums we've used which means they load a lost faster. They use a lot more AJAX/Javascript based te...

My entry in "Good vs Evil" content on Deviant Art

1MrPaul1 — Sun, 17 May 2009 3:55:20 PM -0400

When I saw that DeviantArt present new contest with the theme "Good vs Evil" I decide participate in it without fall. Cause it's a really good chance to show my vision of life to planet. Work made in CorelDraw 14, It's completely vector art. Drawing of many details and finding of models for this picture was not too easy but now I past it all, and you can see finally result. If you like my customization work not to spare a little of your time and look on my Art too. here is the lin...

What are you doing.....in Twitter land?

foreverserenity — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:04:48 PM -0400

I'll admit I was clueless as to what Twitter was. I heard the word thrown about, even during the recent election. I've heard it mentioned by talk show hosts, people there, even here. I saw this link in my mailbox account and took a look at it. My review of the link had me laughing. I don't know, I laughed because I am amazed at this and now realise why so many are fascinated with this new 'thing' . My understanding of Twitter is that you basically ask one qu...

What Not to Do on an Online Social Network

foreverserenity — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 8:42:21 PM -0500

If you are a member of a online social network, for example, Facebook , be careful when you think you are venting only to your friends, often, when you hit the Submit key, what you just wrote will be read by the entire world! This was the unfortunate demise experienced by a college professor, Reiko Ohnuma ! To prepare for her class the professor looked something up on Wikipedia , which she wasn't very proud of doing. Then follows a tirade of venting to her friends on Facebo...

Unfriending, Defriending, Flummoxed by a Burger!

foreverserenity — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 5:23:35 PM -0500

This one takes the cake, or make that the burger! Recently on Facebook, several people lost their friendship because of a burger! Recently, Burger King ran a “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign. What is that you might wonder? The ever inventive and creative people at Burger King (and their advertising agency) offered a free burger to anyone on Facebook who would delete 10 of their friends on Facebook! A free burger ended 234,0...

Joe User is "Joke User"

TheGuyPC — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 8:00:21 AM -0400

Everyone at Joe User is just so happy and fun! You have to have a sense of humor with a name like Joe User! I was considering starting a blogsite dedicated to the discussion of marriage. I was going to call it Harry Crabs. My wife balked, so I digress. There is really no virtual community to compare to the honest, open perspective that Joe User has. There should be more like it. This world would be a much richer, more diverse place. I, as soooooooo many others are just grateful to be ...

Knock Knock

monofurioso — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 6:29:18 PM -0400

Tap tap tap. Is this thing on?

Some deviant thoughts on minority shareholder rights

Frogboy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 9:00:38 PM -0400

This October will be the 12th year that I've run a C-class corporation. That means stockholders and what not. As a result, I have long been familiar with the rights and priviledges of stock holders, even minority ones. In 12 years of business, I don't think anyone could find a single disgruntled business partner. That is, in 12 years, no one we've worked with has ever expressed any dissatisfaction with how they were treated. So even though we're "evil capitalists" I think we...

JoeUser vs. ImpulseDriven

Draginol — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 3:00:36 PM -0400

ImpulseDriven.net is an alternative virtual community site much like JoeUser.com. There is a lot of overlap between the two in terms of content but ImpulseDriven has more game and software categories and excludes the political and religious categories. The two have considerably different UIs as well. So which UI do you prefer? a) JoeUser.com or ImpulseDriven.net

Impulse Blogging Options

misterME — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 9:44:07 AM -0400

So if you're reading this, it's likely you've already stumbled across the Community pane of Impulse and have experienced the exceptionally clean, inviting, and user-friendly interface of ImpulseDriven (the engine behind the blogging feature of Impulse). There have been some discussions of why some articles posted to JoeUser.com don't show up here on ImpulseDriven. The answer from on high is that, while similar engines, only certain categories are shared between the two, confining ImpulseDrive...

Gnomedex: The $600 Blogger Conference!

Zoomba — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 9:23:40 AM -0400

Now, I'll admit that I'm definitely on the outside looking in of the blogging/web 2.0 community. While I manage very large sites with a ton of users and reach, I'm still on the periphery. Why? Well, I live in Michigan. Not exactly a state known for it's thriving IT industry. If you go beyond IT services that support manufacturing companies, you can probably count on one hand the number of companies doing anything significant with online communities or digital media.

Yes, I'm a bit of a victim of geography here, and even though it's all online now, it's all IM, Twitter, email and blogging, proximity is still important. So when I see events like Gnomedex coming up, I'm interested because it could be one of the few opportunities I have this year to actually network with other people working in my field. And in this nebulous profession, professional networking is king.

Why I love Twitter

qrush — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:09 AM -0400

I've become quite a twitterholic the past few days. In fact, let's check the stats. Yeah, I've been pretty much addicted the past few days. Why? Well, there's a few things I love about Twitter:

Twitter is short, sweet, and easy to use.

The concept is simple: 140 characters to tell the world what you're doing. I don't think you can get more simple than that. No complex forms, no huge commitments, just a simple request, and your simple answer. It has a wonderful web interface, and the settings allow you completely customize your page's background along with colors for fonts. It's just a breeze to use and easy to look at, which is a welcome change compared to Facebook or MySpace.

Turning off the Firehose

qrush — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 1:44:44 PM -0400

I recently came across this post about a user who decided he had enough of the user-generated news community, Reddit. I've been a Reddit user for a quite some time now, and I've done my share of down voting Ron Paul stories as well submitting silly pictures that have made it onto the front page. Lately though, it's become more than a habit to check this site.

Is Skinning ALL Stardock Is About?

Zoomba — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 6:35:06 PM -0500

I've been a member of the Stardock Community since November of 2002. I'm nowhere near being one of the early members, and in fact I came to Stardock by a route much different from most. I'm not a windows customization junkie. In fact, at the time my only experiences with WindowBlinds has been under Win98 on a woefully underpowered machine and the themes I was able to find weren't all that great to look at, so I was pretty much turned off by the whole customization deal for quite a while. ...

Ask a Moderator Series - Part 2

Zoomba — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 3:06:31 AM -0500

We're back again with another set of questions asked by you, and answered by members of the WinCustomize moderation team. Today we hear from WOM, Koasati, Zubaz, Elvee, Erk, Jafo, Starone, Quentin94 and Fuzzy Logic. Remember to check back again next Friday for Part 3! Question 1 - What is the best thing about being a moderator? The worst? (Zubaz) Wizop WOM Being able to contribute to WC. I spend hours a day modding and watching the g...

Call for Comment: User Medals & Awards

Zoomba — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 9:43:09 PM -0500

In our ongoing efforts to improve WinCustomize and make participating and contributing more fun and fulfilling for our skinners, we're looking at changing around how certain systems related to user reward work. The first one is the Medals system. Currently automatically award Medals to users for hitting any number of milestones here on WinCustomize. We track who's the top skinner across the entire site, who is the best in any particular gallery, how many downloads are achiev...

YOOWALK- Walk Around The Web

PoSmedley — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 9:19:55 AM -0500

I've tried a few of the virtual community type services and social networking. None of them impressed me much. Then, I came across this in RSS. YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web as a 3D world where you can: Browse the web in 3D with your avatar Build a 3D version of your website Have your own room in 3D Meet people and hang out with them It's barely in Beta and they are accepting preregistration for beta testers. I decided to sign up and thought that ther...

New artist community: Skillfights.com

amunchkin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 1:21:40 AM -0500

For all who don't know, there is a new website out there called Skillfights.com! This website allows you to compete with your artwork, your photography, your music-making, your videos, your flash animations, and your writings. You submit your entry into a fight of a specific category, and once the entry peroid is up, voting amonst the users of the site take place. Whoever gets the most votes wins! Why am I posting this? This website, believe it or not, is REALLY fun! It's like an olympics for...