OMG! U Gotz gchat?
Google owns your soul. Seriously! Who needs a separate AIM when you can just put your buddylist on gchat? Checkout the gmail blog.
I feel kind of weird about this. Do all of these separate entities — each with a little piece of my soul — need to necessarily merge so that my soul, too, can become whole?
Maka-Maka, wocka wocka, I’m confused?
Google’s apparently vying for a spot in your soul, too. Or maybe it just wants what’s left of your soul after Facebook ? the post-Facebook sloppy seconds. Nice.
Maka-maka (or makamaka, which is a name from manga, another life-stealer) will be launched in early November, and will pretty much be the poorman’s Facebook, with similar applications until someone comes up with something new.
As if Google doesn’t have enough control. It’s the original brand-name verb! “I’ll Google it!” came before “I’ll Facebook him!” lest we forget. Oh well. If you’ll excuse me, I’m just gonna go upload some new pictures of myself from my Macbook’s webcam onto Facebook. Any comments can be forwarded to my g-chat. PEACE!
Oink.me (.cd) no more
Way back in the day, a friend of Brink invited her into the Oink phenomenon, a torrent site where users could find pretty much any CD ever created, and even some yet to be created, released, and sold. Well, I was kicked off the site long ago for inactivity while I studied abroad, but it seems now everyone’s been kicked off. FOR GOOD. Because the site got busted and it’s all over. We we we we all the way? to British jail ? where I hear you get tea in place of the standard gruel of the American prison system.
Watch your back
Well guess what? The U.S. government isn’t the only entity after your information. Apparently, the MPAA hired a hacker named Robert Anderson to grab the goods on TorrentSpy, the BitTorrent search site. Among other interesting information Anderson offered to Wired? That the MPAA wanted to set up a fake Torrent site to gather “names, address books, contact information and banking information” of other Torrent sites. Sneaky sneaky, though the MPAA denies the thing, and says it’s not their fault Anderson was a creep.
The MPAA does not dispute it paid Anderson for the sensitive information, but insists that it had no idea that Anderson stole the data. “The MPAA obtains information from third parties only if it believes the evidence has been collected legally,” says MPAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Kaltman.
To the MPAA I say two things:
1. Thanks for nothing, you’ve really been letting me down lately. You okay-ed a remake of The Birds? Really? And why isn’t The Darjeeling Limited playing in Ithaca, N.Y. yet?
2. You hang with creeps, you hire creeps, you’re gonna get creeped.
PEACE AND LOVE
Brink.
Avatar superstar
Brink loves Brink. But if it didn’t … then it could make an avatar to fulfill its wildest identity-shifting fantasies. And to make virtual life easier, the BBC reports that now your avatar can span across virtual cliques. That is, your Second Life character could also be your … Wii character. Or other virtual world character/ facsimile. (Love that word, by the by. Use it sparingly, but wisely, and your life will be richer.)
Anyway, this could be useful, considering that your workplace orientation will probably be taking place online. So you can judge a person by his avatar after all. Hmm. Well, Brink Google-imaged (and created a verb) “liz avatar” to test that statement. Let’s take a look:
And if that isn’t Brink in a nutshell, then I don’t know what.
Bored, but bright
Alliteration headline Tuesday! I should make this a mainstay in the Brink catalog. But anyway …
When I’m bored online, I have my bookmarks bar to keep me busy: The New York Times online, Gawker, Facebook, The Village Voice, Jezebel, Digg! … the list goes on. But Lifehacker gave me a *slew* of new pages to add to my arsenal, all of which have the .edu for street cred.
So click away, my little minions. And don’t feel so guilty for it.
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