4 posts tagged “internet”

There's something amiss when one-liners start becoming the only posts I might see on my Pownce feed every other day now. I'm getting pretty frustrated with people trying to integrate all of their micro-blogging profiles to make it easier for themselves to cross-post. The whole point of the various services are that they have unique ways (for the most part) to display and update your information.

Different types of information are starting to cross-pollinate across the following web services and are seriously having me consider pulling myself out of Pownce because of it.

Twitter is the very example of micro-blogging with its simple RSS accessible feeds for its users. It's fairly easy to get involved with others through @replies (where one posts the at symbol before a username somewhere in the post to get the attention of another user) and their simple social networking scheme.

Pownce is a richer Twitter in many ways that notes can be threaded as well as specialized notes that may have events (complete with iCal event formatting), links to other websites, and even the ability to upload files to your profile to share with your friends. The lack of RSS feeds in Pownce may throw off the Twitterholic and tumblr users, but for bloggers and casual Internet people, Pownce may be the choice for them.

I just wish they would all keep themselves seperate and not cross back and forth over each other with websites like helltxt.com and so on.

Well, it seems that Pownce is not loading for me. I guess Pownce is down.

This is rather depressing. I don't want to fill my Vox up with microblogs: that's what Vox is for.

Beta 3 just came out and it's pretty stable. There is a little bit of a design change and feature differences.

Firefox 3 Beta 3 Toolbars

• The Home button cannot be given to the button toolbar anymore. It's no longer an option. It, by default, appears on the left-most side of the bookmarks toolbar.
• There's a pretty good summary widget in the lower-right for downloads. It simply tells you how many downloads are active, and how much time left until they're completed.
• Tags have been added to bookmarks, and the bookmarks manager now automatically files bookmarks with tags into specialized folders in the organizer
• More protection and options regarding phishing websites, specifically allowing you to declare websites as safe and being able to turn off the precaution completely
• Just plain faster. The optimizations they've been making to it are working GREAT.

Funny thing is, I had a little trouble getting bullets to work while writing this post in Firefox 3 Beta 3. I think it might've been the rich text editor, but I'm not exactly sure.

I have to hand it to Apple, they really have a great PR division. I have always enjoyed their advertisements, and I am sure they have won quite a few customers over to their products simply by the way they discuss facts and messages through the two's dialogue.