Looks like facebook added a new feature called news feeds and mini-feeds. What they are is an aggregation of all the recent changes that have happened to all your friends and anything they’ve done on facebook. As they say all of this information was already available and that is true enough but getting all the information they give you would be damn near impossible. On your facebook homepage you get a list of all of the updates relating to your friends, when they join groups, leave groups, get tagged in a picture, post new pictures, comment on a picture, post to a wall anywhere, add friends, delete items out of interests, add favorite books, change any little section in their profile, RSVP to events, and even when their profile picture is changed. Now its possible for everyone to know silly little details that may seem they should be a little more private. Waste even more time with what is possible when the power of data mining is applied to facebook.
Unfortunately I’ve yet to see the movie but soon dammit. Once all of the motherfucking social responsibilities of welcome week are out of the motherfucking way or I find a little break I’m going to see it. I’ve only heard amazing things and hopefully the movie is so motherfucking awful it’s motherfucking amazing.
I’m so excited it looks like Zooomr’s portals are actually being released right on time. Just one step in the direction to take away any advantage Flickr may have still had over Zooomr. Oh happy day.
What you didn’t hear about AOL’s little mistake? Well they said it was to help academic researchers and while they may have had good intentions they surely did not think this one through very well. I don’t know what they expected by releasing 20 million search queries grouped by AOL user, well replaced with a randomly assigned userid.
- You can seach through the data they released.
- The NYTimes was even able to track down a woman based on the data with only an “anonymous” user number to group the searches together with.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation demands an FTC investigation and privacy reform.
Maybe someday AOL will keep itself out of the news. As it seems the only times they talked about is when they make some kind of mistake. Better yet maybe AOL will finally fall apart or just give up.
Looks like Sierra decided to be really nice to everyone. Yes, I said everyone, not just their customers. They’re giving away free copies of F.E.A.R. Combat the multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. You can get a free cd key and then download the program files… all 1.8GB of them. I myself would suggest using the torrent download its probably the fastest. Looks like I’ve got something to do once I get home.
I keep trying to tell myself that I’m find and that I am over her by now. This dream shows to me that it’s not quite true. First there are the thoughts that maybe she’ll realize she misses all the time we’ve spent together and want some of that back leading to an actual relationship. When I felt this way I just try to discredit it as nothing. The dream I just had is another story though, I just woke up from this dream and it seemed so real.
Where the dream took place I’m not sure. It could have been what in my mind is supposed to be her co-op regardless I’m up walking down some stairs and stop for a while at this room (maybe a little futher down than her’s) and I see the door is open and get this funny feeling. I ask if they want the door shut (it’s dark I can’t see anything) and I hear Nicole respond “yeah, sure.” Then I start to say something obviously not happy with the situation, Nicole says back, “Well obviously I wasn’t good enough for you” and instantly I feel hurt. I deny it adamantly and try to explain that I still care about her so much. She is visually upset (even though it’s dark) and I give her a big hug. I now realize she’s nearly in tears and grasp her tighter and say that I’ve always cared about her more than I would even show but didn’t feel it was ok to do so because I wasn’t sure how she would react. I never wanted her to feel like I was truly falling for her and ruin everything because of how she might react if she understood that.
All of this could be the compassionate side battling the pessimistic side of me. Trying to convince it once again that all this is really worth fighting for. Not just a summer fling and something that could be very amazing. Should I listen to this as a sign? Should I just dismiss it as a crazy dream? It’s the first dream I’ve remembered in weeks and was very vivid. I would very much like to take it as a sign…
I’m not even going to make excuses for this one. The image was so cute I could hardly contain myself. Here it is for everyone else to squeal about too.
