HAPPY WINDOWS 7 DAY!!!
Make sure you get your copy, this week several real time web search plays drop with everyone in a perceived “rush” to get their solutions in place. Lala is at the center of at least 2 music distribution colabs with Google & Facebook. I must admit, Lala gets my money first having a larger collection of obscure music and great price point. In other news, social sites can literally wish you to death as seen with the current Kanye West RIP meme. This has been big news all week.

RIP Kanye West - http://www.whatthetrend.com/trend/RIP+Kanye+West
The popular forum ebaumsworld spread the rumour of a Kanye West death, which caught on Twitter’s trending topics. Since then, contrarians, gullible folks, and “Imma let you finish” jokes have kept the trend afloat…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Social Search - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/breaking-google-launches-social-search/
Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature…
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Facebook Adds Digital Music to Gift Store - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-lala/
Imagine being able to gift a track to a friend on Facebook. Now you can, thanks to today’s Facebook announcement of a revamped gift store that includes a music selection powered by Lala…
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Facebook: 45 Million Status Updates Every Day - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-sheryl-discussion/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg took the stage. She sat down for a Q&A with Federated Media’s John Battelle to discuss Facebook’s deal with Bing, its long-term goals, advertising, Facebook Connect, and more…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Search Deal With Twitter - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/google-twitter-search-deal/
While we’re still digesting the news of Bing adding Twitter to its search engine, Google has some news of their own: they’re about to do the same exact thing…
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19% of Internet Users Now Use Status Updates - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/pew-september-data/
The Pew Internet and American Life Project is part of a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that explores trends around the Internet, publishing reports about their findings on a regular basis…
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REVEALED: Details of Bing’s Twitter Search [Screenshots] - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/bing-tweet-deal/
This morning, big news broke that Microsoft had penned deals with Facebook and Twitter that will integrate status updates from the two popular social media services into the Bing search engine…
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Microsoft’s Online Store Gets A Revamp, Now Sells Windows 7 PCs Too - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/22/microsofts-online-store-gets-a-revamp-now-sells-windows-7-pcs-too/
Coinciding with the worldwide debut of Windows 7 and the launch of physical retail stores throughout the world, Microsoft has revamped its online store as well…
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MySpace Adds Full Music Video Archives, Deep Artist Analytics - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/myspace-adds-full-music-video-archives-deep-artist-analytics/
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta will make a number of announcements on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Among them are two major changes to MySpace Music. The service will now have a full historical archive of music videos from the major labels and independents. And they are also launching an artist dashboard to give musicians deep analytics into profile views, music streams, and friend information…
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The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/web-2-0-summit-facebooks-vp-of-engineering-on-scaling-facebook/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering talked a bit about the infrastructure of the company…
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Google Music Service: The Screenshots - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-the-screenshots/
None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it…

Fast forward to the future

Well, our future is a lot different than I envisioned. As a child of the 60′s our race to the stars confirmed our commitment to space exploration and the promise of colonization of other worlds. Sadly, we’ve lost the passion generated in those competitive days of the Camelot era as the US raced to be the first nation to put a man on the moon. The visions of a world of worlds sadly won’t happen in our lifetimes, as the dreams of our leaders died rather abruptly with them. Space exploration will have to wait as our economy will take decades to repair.

Cue the Internet

Up until 1995 my life was pretty lack luster. I dreamed of traveling the stars but that would never happen. Luckily, one way to explore that had been foreseen and written about was the Internet. “The Net“ saved my life by giving me an outlet that exposed me to an entire world of knowledge and people I would never meet otherwise. With the Internet, I learned new skills and created opportunities for myself, made a living, purchased a home and gave my life a purpose.

My passion

Above and beyond the various skill-sets I’ve developed over the years, the idea of how people use the Internet has always intrigued me. Being here as long as I have, I’ve seen trends die and become reborn on more then one occasion. Watching people discover these things and how they use them is what drives me to learn. Documenting the things they do has become my passion. It’s understanding people and predicting their actions around technology that gives me my hope for the future and the fact that I can have a hand at shaping it is very important to me.

Ultimately, through social networking we’ll learn the sum of our parts and grow towards a global understanding of our place in this universe. The stability of our world depends on man’s unique ability to affect change in our environments. Just as man destroys, man can rebuild. The promise of a world where drawn borders are erased is the future. The Internet has become my passion for the future.

-tm

Watching coverage of #Gustav while following CNN’s @ricksanchezcnn. I’m loving that you have all of these people from trusted sources now interacting on our social plain.

More value follows this week:

1. The Onion (TheOnion)
2. Virgin America (thisishowtofly)
3. blackobserver.com (blackobserver)
4. PoPolitickin (PoPolitickin
5. huffpost (huffpost)
6. TIME (TIME)

Thanks guys from bringing useful content to the space.

She allegedly “found” the Myspace profile page (see Google Cache) of *..mercede..*’s, someone she claims is the sister of Bristol Palin’s baby daddy. She also took the photos from this myspace account and placed them here in Photobucket.

So what’s the plan Gia? Does anyone really care what these HillBIllies really look like? I could care less.They’re kids and kids fuck up. What’s more interesting to me is that the parent’s don’t have any control over their kids. What impact can this Palin woman have if she can’t control her own family?

Gia you live in the UK so you’re lucky. You don’t have to worry about these HillBillies coming after you. They do love their guns.

-holla

It has been a while since this blog was last updated. Life sometimes takes over and drags you along. With that said, I’ve had a few days to figure out what to do with this blog. Well the good news is I think I’ve figured it out. I plan to blog about life as discovered and viewed via Twitter post and links. I’ll offer my opinions and show my readers new and interesting things I find on Twitter. These post will also be a lot shorter because that’s whats micro-blogging is all about.

-Cheers!

Today like most days, tech happenings that affect many African-Americans & wiggers online go largely unnoticed by the likes of people on Twitter and other social media circle-jerks. But today, the largely unknown & unacknowledged SOHH.com was hacked and defaced. Later today, SOHH had the DDOS‘d knocked out of them. EPIC LUL’z undoubtedly ensued shortly afterward…

One things is for certain. I don’t know who da fcuk did it, and I really don’t care either! Looking around the web all fingers point to ebaumsworld.com, but 4chan has been mentioned as well. Taunts from SOHH’s JBO (Just Buggin’ Out) forum where rumored to be the ignition point of the site hack but when the site hack resulted in more shit talk from JBO, I assume the decision was made to launch an all out DDOS attack on SOHH.com. Subsequently spilling over to AHH.com later in the day. Someone claiming to be Anon snitched this poorly crafted claim on LvLselect.com:

Anon Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 1:53 am

The attacks will continue until SOHH.com is completely no more. We will drain their entire bandwidth every month. At the moment we have done a total of about 2-3 TB of bandwidth raep. We aren’t scared of some niggers, don’t mess with the internet hate mucheene. The internetz are srs bzns.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.”

I just want to say one thing before I end this post. AHH and SOHH.com have made a little money running their sites. The owners don’t run around acting “Nigger Rich” as some say flaunting their good fortune. Currently, they are on conference calls running strategy on how to fix this “minor” annoyance. The bottom line is, the “hackers” may have probably raep them for a couple of grand in lost revenue, (they do actually make money running these sites you know…) but I know damn well these folks aren’t going to roll over and go out of business. That would be some young minded shiii to think.

-holla

PS: the world doesn’t really give a shii about this

The Clinton’s struck pay dirt when Bill left office. Hilary’s campaign will undoubtedly bring more money into the Clinton’s household if she’s elected. It stands to reason the anger in Bill Clinton lies in the fact that:

A. He’s shook hands and assured that Hillary would help further agendas that don’t benefit the American people.
B. He’s upset that Hillary is losing to an African American. Life in the Clinton’s compound has to be hell right now.
C. They will not return victoriously to the White House as if in some Camelot storybook vindication for leaving the White house in same those many years ago.

You would be upset too…

So whatever man that’s strike 1, it’s nothing I’m in a weird mood right now so many people I feel should be supportive are on some ole “New York Shit” right now. Don’t you cornballs realize who da fuck I be!?!? I guess not, I mean I was building sites and writing on these internetz before a lot of you realized there was one. I’m hatin’ right now! Anyway, I reached out to Nicky2States on some positive words and to cop an interview and in her words and I quote,

I don’t need to read the blogs becuz I might get pissed off and wont do any interview at all! (Just bein’ real, like I AM!) But ask me what you want. It doesn’t matter to me…

I send my little questions in and proceeded to get no answers in reply except for her to tell me she sent me the questions. WTF!!! I know not everyone is an emailing beast like I, but come on shorty, I was feeling you. Count that strike 2.

People on Twitter irk me.
Initially, my convos there seemed like progress. Here lately most of the people I do know are ignoring me. WTH did I do? People are funny with they’re ways I guess everyone is searching for that breakthrough moment when they will be recognized for their contribution or maybe I’m wack I don’t even know what they thinking and I don’t care either. Fuck you all, I’m taking my attention off of Twitter for a little while so I can do something for myself. Strike 3!

So Barack we’re batting 0 wins for this week but that’s ok. My new mindset won’t let that bother me and with my interest renewed in my blog it’s time to put some more elbow grease in and get this blog’s content and traffic up. Barack needs just 44 delegates to get the 2118. Please end this up soon and put these Clinton’s in the ground my dude. We got this.

-holla

I found it hilarious that Twitter pooped it’s guts out again tonight, enraging the entire Twittersphere during the event. For any of you 3 people who actually read what I write I made a suggestion about the error screen graphics and Twitter must have been listening. We got a nice pretty white whale (that’s us) being carried by some clueless birds who appear to be lost (that be Twitter and them). So keep in mind I’m still laughing at how mad people get when it goes down repeatedly. I took the opportunity to check out Friend Feed as a back up and I have to say Friend Feed is looking pretty good right now. If I can just convince my small horde of followers to use it. We can tweet to FF and never miss a beat:)

-holla

So Twitter goes down hard today and I started thinking, “Maybe Twitter should let us design random error pages…” Here’s my creation (click to see the actual page). Let me know what you think and how about creating one of your own.

-holla