Depending on where you live, your tweets may be censored As so it is; Twitter will now censor tweets based on censorship laws of the country the user is in. Now before you think this is only bad news for those people who live in repressive resigned, keep in mind there was a proposal by Joe Lieberman to have Twitter delete the accounts in order… Read More
Capcom Confirms Support of SOPA – What it Means for E-Sports According to this article by Digital Trends, Capcom USA, publisher of franchises such as Resident Evil, Ookami, and Street Fighter, has confirmed (albeit in a roundabout manner) that they support SOPA. Capcom is a member of the Entertainment Software Association which has openly expressed its support of the bill and “appears on the House Judiciary… Read More
Funny Meme posters from the Ocean Marketing Fail This is so funny. First off, you need to know what this Ocean Marketing fail is in the first place. tl;dr This (1man?) marketing shop that represents a game controller failed to keep a customer informed about a shipment date miss. After 3 times the customer started to get angry about the lake of information. … Read More
How to get rage comic (troll) emoticons on Chrome Man, am I late to the party on this one, but better late then never. First, the link to install rage face emoticons in Chrome for Now you can use your favorite memes on sites like Facebook, Twitter, youtube, Google+, Reddit, FunnyJunk, EbaumsWorld, and Memebase! This extension does have its limit, if the person who… Read More
If I stop using social media, does that mean I’m not longer social? It’s kinda of funny. I remember getting into Twitter all those years ago. Loved it. I write TwittFilter and a few other programmes for analyzing twitter feeds and social graphs. I tried other socmed apps, including facebook, but never really got into them that much, but still, I was pretty deep. But in that last… Read More
Topify is now gone. Is there a reason to use to the Twitter API anymore? Another one bits the dust. Topify, a service that makes working with twitter and email much better decided to not to deal with the latest changes to the Twitter API. And I can understand some what because one of the services of TwittFilter ( developed by Yours Truly) has a similar service where it will… Read More
Need music for your event or party? Try turntable.fm I was lucky enough to be turned on to TurnTable.FM when it launched and have enjoyed it off and on ever since. Last week, when we were planning the final details for VentureBeats Mobile/GameBeat conference, we talked about music. I suggested we should create a Venturebeat room and let people DJ the breaks! As it… Read More
There is no official Google+ API, but there IS unofficial API Google has not released an official API yet, however, that does not mean you cannot start playing around with Google+ data. There are quite a few unofficial API’s. Here is a list I saw on ‘programmableWeb‘ Google+Tweet: A full featured Twitter client inside your Google Plus Account. Google+Facebook: A browser extension that lets you view… Read More
CoverJam. Semi random slide show on your iphone ipad set to music This will be a quick post. I’ll write up more later, but basically it’s this.. You play music, the app looks for public images in flickr and Instagram that match the title, album or band of the song, and play a slideshow for you. Most likely of the band you are playing. I decided to… Read More
Dante’s Google+ Circles As I was putting my Google+ circles together, I thought. Hmmm.. How would Dante do his circles? Yes I wonder these things.. And here is how his circles would look. Had to do a bit of Photoshop to get these in order. Then I thought.. how would Dante’s Google+ circles map to today’s grouping? Actually,… Read More
iPhone app to auto reply to your twitter and facebook account At first when I read this, I thought; ‘an auto reply for twitter and facebook? NOooooo!’ My worse thoughts was some putting an auto reply that they are eating a sandwich and will be back online in ah hour. Really? You are so locked into your SocMed addition that you have to let people know… Read More
Exporting from Facebook to Google+ blocked, for now I guess this is not a surprise. Facebook is blocking people from using Mansour’s Chrome tool for exporting contact info from Facebook. The latest from Mansour is that he is going to try and find a work around. CRITICAL UPDATE: Facebook is trying so hard to not allow you to export your friends. They started… Read More
How to Create a vanity short URL for Google+, yes the land rush is on Vanity URLs for social media. First it started with Twitter, and that was default. twitter.com/perivision. Can be any more perfect then that. In fact, that is (IMHO) one of the reason Twitter took off. Facebook followed up and so did LinkedIn. And now we have gplus.to I’m not sure if this is sponsored by google… Read More
It already started. Email scam for Google+ Actually, I would have thought this would have happened faster, but Geekword has reported that there is an email scam going around. If you click on this fake google+ invite you will be redirected to some pharmacy site, but one can imagine will not take long till some sort of virus payload it put on… Read More
How to copy your Facebook contact to Google+ Before I show how to copy friends for facebook to google+, I want to point of 2 things. First I have tried this Chrome plugin and second I have NO desire to do so. Something I like about Google+ is its a great opportunity to start over. { Update: The chrome facebook exporter has been… Read More
If you did not jump on the Google+ invite you got, you may have to wait a bit more Yesterday there was a flood of Google+ invites going all over the place. It seemed that in 6 hours I was logged in and it seemed everyone I knew was there in the system. At least it seemed that way. I was adding people to my ‘circles’ that were not on google+ yet, but most… Read More
Skype for iPad coming soon! About time! Just saw this on tuow. They say it will be out soon, but no date. What I do not understand is why wait so long? I guess it took the release of iPad2 to finally push them enough to build it. So stay tuned. From tuow: A few features in the full PC/Mac app didn’t… Read More
The Indie Game Movie is a Go! Win for Kickstarter Kickstarters ability to get projects off the ground is not new news, but every now and again, I’ll get an email to remind me just how cool this service is. The Indie Game movie just got funded in 24 hours, so I thought I would post up the email showing yet again, you can make things happen if you just try.… Read More
Color losing even more color after pulling its Android App Remember Color? I do. I remember it getting $41m in VC cash for what I though was a pretty weak idea. Then I tried it. And I was really puzzled. This seem more like a simple 20k app that really does not need more then 500k to launch.. and all in all, it was just… Read More
John Stewart’s The Daily Show QR code page This is fun. CNN showed a QR code for people to go to a website to get more information on the GOP debates. Which seems a bit silly. I have to grab my phone, call up my QR reader, then I get to the webpage. If I’m at home, then I have to email that… Read More