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Fun with Chat Roulette

// March 3rd, 2010 // View Comments // Internet

DISCLAIMER: Chat Roulette is an adult site. I wouldn’t venture to this site unless you are the adventurous and ready to be shocked. You might be offended by the pics in this post.  You’ve been warned.

So me being the adventurous type, I decided to mess with the people using Chat Roulette. I won’t go into a huge description on what Chat Roulette is, google can tell you. My plan was to have fun with Chat Roulette  by displaying some disturbing images instead of my face and see peoples’ reactions. Most people that are going here are looking for, naked chicks, penises, or trolling for attention. I wanted to see their reaction to something besides “the norm.” Needless to say I captured some amusing moments. Keep reading to see all the pics.

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Posterous wants to be like Tumblr with Post.ly

// January 21st, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, Social Media

Posterous has done a relaunch of their URL Shortening site Post.ly. This site was used previously to shorten URLs from your posterous blog before sending to Twitter. Going to http://post.ly did not have this slick interface in the past. Now you can interact with the site directly as a quick and easy way to post to Posterous and Twitter.

This new simplified site’s look is a complete 180 from the normal posterous site seen below:

This may be an answer to the simple look and feel of Tumblr, posterous’s direct competitor. Is this article written by Peg on Tech, one of the reasons for Tumblr’s popularity is the landing page is much less cluttered. Here is a quote from the article about Tumblr’s landing page:

Sign up is dead simple. Can you imagine the conversion rates they get out of that page? Moreover, they have one of the best taglines of any service: the easiest way to blog. What else is there to explain? They don’t brag about features like “like”, “reblog” or (ugh) “tumblarity.” Tumblr is the easiest way to blog. Anyone, your mother included, can understand that.

Posterous with their new Post.ly page is trying to bring that simplicity to them as well. Techcrunch has an article on the announcement. I personally have a tumblr and posterous account. I seem to use posterous more because I like their feature set. I will definitely give this a try and see if I like it better than using their main site.

Sites I Like: Gawker.TV

// January 20th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, TV

Gawker.TV is where I got to get my daily Tube news, gossip, and stories. The site has a great mixture of internet meme, TV Gossip, Show commentary, clips, links and more.  They have a great section of their site called “What were Watching Tonight” where the reporters tell you their best picks or assignments are for the night.

This week I’ve been fixated on the Late Night Wars between Jay and Conan, where the fate of  The Tonight Show is being decided. All the late night shows have something to say or make fun of the controversy and I don’t have the time or inclination to watch all those late night shows in one sitting. Gawker’s staff watches all the shows and records the best clips and saves them on their site. You get David Letterman’s crazy rants about Jay and Jimmy Kimmel’s clips where he dressed like Jay for an entire show.

So what is your favorite site for TV News and Gossip? Let me know in the comments.

First Guest Podcast

// January 16th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, Social Media

Did my first guest podcast, well actually my first podcast of any kind. The podcast was the Average Joe Show, hosted by Corey Charette and Ward Miller. It was a pretty entertaining show. In this episode we discussed the following news stories: sickness from BBQs, toy gun store robbery, long hair suspension, Army mom refuses to go, McGwire used steroids, Spider-Man 4 is a no go, and a sex robot. Ya we covered a varied array of topics. Give it a listen here.

Thanks again Corey and Ward for the opportunity and I hope to be on more shows in the future.

Sites I Like:Reflection of Me

// January 15th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet

ReflectionOf.Me “of you and of everything that surrounds us…”

is rated as one of the Top100 Posterous blogs. This is a blog I go to frequently throughout the week. The site at first glance might appear to be artsy but take a closer look or you might miss some cool stuff. Like this collection of Avant Garde hairstyles. The site can be informative as well like this post showing which countries have the highest inflation rates. I love the off-the-wall finds on this site that start my day on a light note. Like this collection of food art or this funny webcam video.

Most of all I like Clementine’s collection / comparison posts such as:

The results are the same alcohol or yogo which do you prefer?

Steve Jobs Magazine Covers throughout the Ages

There are many other internet gems to find on this site from surreal artwork to clever adverting campaigns. This is definitely one site to check out daily.

Leo Laporte Documentary

// January 6th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, Social Media, Video

This documentary was featured on the Inside TWIT blog but I had to share it with my friends and readers as well. If you don’t know who Leo Laporte is, you can’t call yourself a Technology geek. No biggie, thats what wikipedia is for. Leo runs a very successful podcasting network known as TWIT (This week in Tech) but he prefers to call them netcasts. Leo says,

“I’ve never liked the word podcast. It causes confusion…people have told me that they can’t listen to my shows because they ‘don’t own an iPod’.”

Speaking of netcasts, that is his tagline on the bumpers to his shows “Netcasts you love, from people you trust.”

The documentary below is done by Michael Sean Wright and Marc Ostrick where they traveled to the “TWIT cottage” in Petuluma, CA. This is part of The Spark Series for eGuiders. They are exploring what makes Leo stand out in this new frontier of media. Leo Laporte has a huge following on the internet and he is doing this with a small staff and a modest budget compared to his TechTV days where it used to cost millions to do what he’s doing today. Leo also give his take on technology in general, Net Neutrality, and explains the joys of doing his show now versus what he did with traditional media. You will also get a small look behind the scenes of TWIT is run. I have always been a huge fan of Leo and the ex-TechTV personalities. A great little film about a tech culture icon.