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Hopeforagoldensummer 10/2 Interview

diablo9b — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:52:54 +0000

Good day WUOG listeners and lovers! This is the 10/2 Interview with Hopeforagoldensummer live from the North Georgia Folk Music Festival. The interviewer is an ecstatic Sean (DJ S.O.S.) Click to hear about the soul, threadwork, instrumental wizardry and road wanderings of the 3-headed masters of “The Cozy Music”

10/2 Live Interview w/ Hopeforagoldensummer [audio:http://static.wuog.org/specialty/beasts-from-the-east/edited/Hopeforagoldensummer-10-2-Interview.mp3]

New Facebook User Rollover

Andrew Schwegler — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:20:07 +0000

Oh man, I think the recent bugs at Facebook are all part of their rolling out of a shit-ton of contextual updates. Small additions that increase usability while increasing required bandwidth are good? Eh?

Virb Gives Up On Trying to be Facebook

Andrew Schwegler — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:34:16 +0000

Virb is dead. Long live Virb! The social networking site that I fell in love with way back when is official closing—kind of. It’s no longer going to be a sexy alternative to MySpace. It’s no longer going to be a decent alternative to Tumblr and Posterous. Instead of being a mish-mash of not-so-complete social networking functions (including a short-lived Last.fm alternative), Virb will crack it’s cocoon in July and emerge as a Square Space competitor?

Details are a bit sparse right now, but that is exactly how it seems. Except, I don’t see any mention of a native blogging feature. So, it’s going to be an easy way to make/maintain staticy web pages? Yeah, the themes they’ve been spotlighting are quite sexy. And they seem to be internally excited about what they’re making. I can’t help but feel, however, that Virb could have built up into a great community for artists.

The new site looks like a fantastic tool to create a resume or portfolio site. But, it’s not going to be free anymore. And, they aren’t offering an easy way to save any content from the old service. Apparently there will be some tight integration with Tumblr, but I’m not sure why Virb is going to be better than Tumblr + Premium Theme + Tumblr’s Pages Feature.

I want them to prove my hesitations wrong.

(via PATH)

Marines work inside an augmented reality

wuog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:01:31 +0000

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-zvymlSvk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

CERN Sets World Record

wuog — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:44:57 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has broken a world record by sending two separate proton beams around a huge circle with more energy than ever before. The LHC is still a year away from reaching full power. Read more at Ars Technica.

We’ve forgotten who we are.

Andrew Schwegler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:40:02 +0000

Merlin Mann, of 43folders.com, explains how we must remember who we are and not go running to the internet for answers when we forget. Why do we check our e-mail so often? Why refresh Twitter and Facebook every few seconds? It’s a long video; but, it is very well worth it. This video isn’t about who you should be, it’s about watching out for people who try to tell you who you should be.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7192517[/vimeo]

My Tapeworm

Andrew Schwegler — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:41:49 +0000

Friend of the blog, Jennifer Teeter has a spanking new song out called “My Tapeworm.” Give it a listen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkAL5SJuRQ&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube]

Sex Doesn’t Sell

Andrew Schwegler — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:50:40 +0000

So, “everyone” knows about the new show this fall that premiered on the CW called The Beautiful Life. It was hyped up and stared one former OC star and one former High School Musical star. Well, it was cancelled after two episodes last month. But, my question is how did people in this sex-starved country pass up the chance to watch the show with these naked people in it?

via PK

The Social Media Underdogs

Andrew Schwegler — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:08:55 +0000

Ok, we get it. Everyone loves Tumblr and Twitter and even FriendFeed. But, there has to be more out there, right? More than just those few and lovely ventures funded by the same few companies? Well, I present to you a round up of the social media underdogs. From start-ups to big companies, we can’t all be winners.

Yahoo! Meme

This is Yahoo’s latest adventure into social networks. And once again, (see: Mash) they are too late to the game to matter. Is their interface nice? Yes Will there ever be a big enough user base in english-speaking countries for it to matter to me? No. Also, they don’t let you change the look of your “meme” at all. Not even on Twitter levels.

Posterous

Posterous is kind-of a Tumblr competitor? I ask because It has this nice feature where it posts automatically to all sorts of publishing tool automatically. It’s basically a Tumblr/Facebook/Twitter/etc. blogging tool that happens to also keep all of your posts in blog-format on your user.posterous.com site. It’s great if you need to get your content everywhere at once.

Vox

There is an interesting story behind Vox. Why have I heard of it? It was pushed by Leo Laporte back in the day. Upon joining I got a very distinct livejournal-y vibe about it. And that’s kind-of what it has become… a place for groups of people to share content with only the people they want to see the content. Basically, if you used live journal in the 90’s, your mom would probably like Vox now. That’s what a lot of the content is now: Look at my kids! But, it’s a great platform and I’m kind-of pumped to see them integrate pownce.com technology into the mix.

Virb

This is probably my favorite of underdogs. It started way back when as a place for artists to share the stuff that they make. Recently, the back-end has received a make-over to give it the functionality of a tumblr-like website. But, the core community is still as artsy as ever and the content is of a far higher quality than I’ve ever seen on Tumblr. Sadly, none of of friends use this lovely service. So, it’s a bit useless to me for now. Do I try and spread the word? Yes. Does anyone ever listen when I evengelize my social-networks-of-the-week? Not after everyone I know joined Mash and it faded away.

Hi5

This used to be a moderately popular “clone” of MySpace. Today, it unveiled a new focus: games. Thus, Hi5 is now obsolete. Why would someone go to a separate site to play the games that they already play on Facebook, etc? No clue. Good going Hi5. Hope you enjoy getting compared to OMGPOP now.

What is a browser?

wuog — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:23:31 +0000

Most people don’t know what a browser is. Do you?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ[/youtube]

Of course you do.