My Blog Is Moving

Hey all,

Just to let you know i am moving away from WordPress to add my blog to my site.

To keep following my blog just visit http://www.krismunro.co.uk/blog

Thanks see you there

Bye Bye Bebo

When I was in school I joined the lot, Bebo, MySpace, YouTube etc granted I didnt really use all of them as much as I should have but I still joined. Over the years I have slowly cancelled my accounts for some of them, and started to make use of the remaining ones a lot more.

The first big one I killed was MySpace, it was fun years ago…everyone was on it…and I had over a million friends (99% I never knew and most just spam). It was really good at the start then everyone added HTML behind the scenes, videos etc etc and every page would either take a long time to load or just crash your browser…GONE!

My recent one was Bebo, I had been a member for 4 years and again most of my friends were on it. I did use this a lot more than I did with MySpace but not as much. Over the past year Bebo has gotten worse, pages are taking a long time to load, users are filling them up with crap and lots of “Friends Requests” from half naked or nude girls who want you to click their website link and infect your computer.

Most of my Bebo friends started to move away and join FaceBook and Twitter, I had a FaceBook account already but I also recently joined Twitter and really like it. My Bebo account wont be missed as it was starting to go down hill like MySpace.

It was a dark Scottish night, the rain was light and it was around 8pm. Last night I committed a crime…..I killed my Bebo account.

Flock 2.0 – Internet Browser Review

Flock The Social Internet Browser – www.flock.com

I have been using from since version 1.0 on Linux, under my Ubuntu operating system. I really like the fact that it has a really nice facebook sidebar, built in RSS feed reader and other small cool features.

It wasn’t until I started using Flock that I started to do more things, for example I created a wordpress blog and started blogging (http://kjhm.wordpress.com/) I also created a Flickr account and started to use the built in uploader to upload photos.

Flock 2.0 has now been released and here are my thoughts, to start with version 2 isnt really a full release for me as it feels more like a point something update. Granted they have added a few more small features like MySpace sidebar, and its based on Firefox 3 (yes there are a few more things added but these are the ones that stand out for me).

I will be moving over to Mac in March 2009, and I am starting to think that I might abandon Flock as its starting to feel a little slow for me now. Granted I like the whole socialness at my fingertips, but I can get Facebook, Flickr and Twitter desklets on the Mac to do the same….hmmm

Overall if your a social beaver then then I recomend you download this, I am sure just like me once you start using it you will start to try new social things.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

No More MySpace

So after some thought, I have now removed my MySpace profile. I had never really used this, and I think the last time I logged in to it was a few months ago. I use Bebo and Facebook more at present, so why have a 3rd Social Networking site that I dont use and is just building up spam and MEGA amounts of friends requests from people i dont know….so thats it 100% gone and it wont be coming back.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

My Forum – Soon To Close?

Well it looks like its bad news for my forum, the amount of user activity has decreased to only about 3 views per day. I think the time has come to become more social with the way my friends communicate, I am thinking Flock with the twitter sidebar.

In doing this it means I don’t need to monitor for spam as it will just be my friends, I can still use my blog to advertise my latest projects and via word of mouth.

If my forum doesn’t pick up within the next few weeks its closing.

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Pants to YouTube

OK so I tried to upload my film, and waited for it to upload only to find out that it was rejected. The reason was its file size was too big and its total length…I read that if i change my type of account to “Director”, so I tried the upload again.

Well what a shocker it failed again, this is just pants how can any Director show off his project to its best potential in chunks/parts!!!!! YouTube needs a rethink, they should have paid accounts that allow you to do this…even if it is just a small amount.

I know its to stop the copyrighted material but, thats still not stopping it…as if you search you find all your fav TV shows broken up into parts!!!!

A big BOOOOOOOOOOO to YouTube!!!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: youtube, review, director, film, movie, upload

Last.fm – Review

Last.fm is a UK based internet radio and music community website. I have a last.fm features inside my music player (Amarok) that submits tracks to the website when I listen to my music. After a few tracks are played over a week you can see who was the artists/song i listened to the most, and then go to their page on last.fm and find out if there are any similar bands or news about this artist.

I have found so many new artists that I like with this, which is something I love to do as its always good to find new bands and new music.

www.last.fm

Great site 10/10

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: lastfm, review

Social Networking – Bebo, Myspace and Facebook

Social Networking (SN) is still very popular with every age group, I have an account with Bebo, Myspace and Facebook so here are my thoughts on them.

Myspace – This was the main popular site back in the days, now its popularity has decreased  but it is slowly on the rise again. When i used Myspace i was pounded with friends requests from bands and people i DIDN’T KNOW. This was one of the things that i really hated about it, plus all the bad page codings and crap imported/advertisements/bad free custom layouts.

I have not been on my Myspace site now for a good few months, I am now thinking of closing my account due to this as its just one less thing/password etc to remember.

Bebo – Bebo is probably the most popular SN site at present, I have had an account since 2005 but only within the past few weeks have I really started to use it. The page layouts of everyones profiles are about 90% the same, so you know how far to scroll and where to look for that info you want about your friend.

For me it took me a day to get used to where to look to change a few settings but overall was easy, the only issue i have had so far is the Bands widget. I tried to add this, but it didnt show on my profile where it said it would…so i couldn’t add bands i liked (not that its mega important) but it would have been nice to see work.

Facebook – I have been using this as my main SN site, as I use Flock and Facebook is integrated nicely so its easy to make changes within seconds. This has a very professional look to the page, and like Bebo the layouts of everyone profiles are 90% the same. Most of my friends are found on Bebo, but a few also have FB accounts. It would be nice if there was an integration between the sites, but i don’t think this will every happen.

Overall I feel that Facebook and Bebo are going to continue to be the most popular, but with Myspace adding MyMusic service this could change this factor.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: bebo, myspace, facebook, review, socialnetworking

Korean Drummer Steals the Show

The guy ROCKS – http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1809497

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Mortal Kombat In Central Park

Embedded Video

Blogged with Flock

Tags: mortal, kombat, youtube