05.10.07

Grrrr

Posted in Myspace at 10:38 pm by Sakiina سكينة

Myspace was down today!

*fumes*

How dare it shut down on me.

Just had to share my frustration and anguish with the world…

05.08.07

Myspace snaps up Photobucket

Posted in Internet, Myspace at 5:58 am by Sakiina سكينة

Makes sense considering how many Myspacers, including myself, use Photobucket.

Via Valleywag, hat-tip to the Browser.

Confirmed by TechCrunch.

03.03.07

Yeah, not happening…

Posted in Facebook, Internet, Microsoft, Myspace, SCG at 6:19 am by Sakiina سكينة

Though the visual aspect of it looks pretty cool, Microsoft’s plans for Wallop, something that’s supposed to rival Myspace and Facebook, has one big problem.

That is, the “self-expression flash widgets” that will be available for one to purchase.

First is the inherent oxymoron in such a phrase.  It is a consistently false American idea, I am sad to say, that “buying” something is the equivalent to “self-expression.” The thing I like about Myspace is that though the coding is limited, I can make it my own, for free.  I don’t have to pay some stupid Microsoft designer to do for me what I could do for myself. If that is the whole basis behind Wallop, count me out. If I can’t make things look pretty by myself, do things by myself, without having to pay some designer, count me out.

This just smells to me of Microsoft jumping on the bandwagon, not because they have any particularlly good ideas to offer to the market, but just because they can’t stand some other enterprise having a niche in the technology market.