COMA!

AH! I’ve realized I haven’t blogged about anything since the seventeenth of February! School’s got me so hard that Ive been in a coma away from blogging. But never fear, Ive come back to reality. And back to the blogosphere.

Since I’ve been gone:

1. I have finished up my formspring test.  After that week of testing it, I haven’t gone back to it. It’s not all its cracked up to be. If you guys wanna check out my page you can find it HERE. Feel free to browse the questions but I’m warning you: I won’t answer any more questions if you intend to ask some!

2. I finished up the Google Buzz test. After a while, this lost its fizz, but it may be due to the low number of active buzzers.  I’m willing to give this little guy a couple months to grow a little before I go back to it.

3. The last week of February and first week of March were crazy weeks in terms of the amount of school work. I had two exams and two presentations. At least the worst is over now; the semester is half way through and its all downhill from here.

4. This past weekend was a delightful weekend. I declared it a Vampire Weekend (last weekend was a Weezer weekend) and that went lovely. I also went to go see Alice in Wonderland. But on top of everything enjoyable that happened this weekend, I got hit with an earache and nearly lost my hearing in my left ear. The pain is gone for the most part but I still cant hear out of it. I guess a good weekend comes with a price.

Updatesszs!

Day three and four of the OneWeek FSGB project have been completed. See the updates below:

After getting the word out about my formspring page using twitter most of the time, the questions started rolling in. I guess if you want your page to be known and want more people to visit it, then some advertising is required.

So I got the ball rolling with the questions now but my complaint is this: why do I have to keep pressing the refresh button to see if I have new questions? I think it would be way simpler if there was a live feed or notifications like facebook every time you got a question. Just sayin.

I can’t really update on the goings-on with Google Buzz. I dont update often because I don’t have followers because there arent that many people using Buzz to begin with. And I’m still having a problem with the timeline!! 

Thats it for now. I will return with the final update at the end of this project/investigation/test on saturday!

FormSpring/Buzz Update

So I’m finishing up day two of testing formspring.  Here are my first impressions:

The first thing I thought was that the set up for an account was quick.  All I needed to enter was my name, a desired username/password, email and a short bio. Took me less than five minutes to get an account.  I didn’t bother with changing the design or customizing it.

Once you get passed creating an account, then you can start answering questions. But who’s going to ask those questions? Well the one thing that sucks is that you have to advertise your page. How? Well, if you have a facebook or twitter account, then cool, you can just post an update telling people to “Ask me anything!” followed by your page URL. If you don’t have any of those, I guess there is myspace, if people still use that, or your blog. Either way, you're going to have to use something outside of formspring to get the word out. Once you have done that, then you can wait patiently as the questions start coming in, slowly but surely.

I got a little bored with Formspring on Day One, so I decided to jump into the Google Buzz pool. 

First Impression: It is exactly like twitter, but instead of having people tweeting, they are buzzing. Shouldn’t the Google Buzz symbol be a bee? I guess not, because then we would have the birds and the bees (???)

Anyway, that’s what I thought at first. Then I explored its interfaces. The thing that I like about Buzz is that there is no 140-character limit. You can also comment on other people’s posts more like you do in facebook. In addition to that, the geo-tagging feature is awesome. You get to see what the buzz is in your area if your phone is gps-enabled.

Despite all this, there is one flaw I found with Buzz. On the home page, the timeline of status updates isn’t really in chronological order. I have to scroll down to see new posts because the ones at the top are from 4 hours ago.

Well, that’s it for now. I’ll come back with more updates later.

Spotted.

Google Buzz!

Recently, Google took social networking to a new level with Google Buzz. Think Twitter, only with photo and video uploading capabilities at the same place; no need for external apps or plug-ins. And what’s cool is the geo-tagging feature and seeing what the buzz is in near your location. For more info go here or watch the video.

So are Facebook and Twitter going to follow the fate of myspace? Will the become obsolete? As the saying goes, only time will tell.

I have yet to actually try this, but if any who reads this has experienced Google Buzz, youre welcome to share below!

and one more thing…

FormSpring Me???

So what’s up with this formspring business? By now you, the readers, probably know what it is already. It’s been around for a while now and it looks like it’s gaining popularity with the in-crowd of social web media. Like Google Buzz, I have yet to test these waters. I figured since it doesn’t sound like a long-term commitment, I might as well try it (Google Buzz, your time will come!). Updates on that soon!