Comments on: Some Facebook, a bit of Myspace.

By: November ‘07 digest Part 1 « Cat’s blog

November ‘07 digest Part 1 « Cat’s blog — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:09:37 +0000

[...] Some Facebook, a bit of Myspace. [...]

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:42:24 +0000

I don’t have Opera installed any more and it’s too much hassle to reinstall it.. So everytime I need another browser I use IE which then reminds me soooo muchwhy I loooove FF. Win win situation. :)

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:54:59 +0000

Well if you totally want an adfree blog, get a self-hosted one. Ad free for eternity or until you can keep paying the bills. :P

I don’t even know such a thiong as IE exists. I’ve removed all traces of it from the desktop, startmenu and well everything. I have to go to the IE folder in Prog Files everytime I need to start it which is a few times in a year. :P

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:45:40 +0000

Well, you have to google specifics, like I searched for “Halo 2 carocat”. But I alos used IE, as I couldn’t be bothered to log out of FF. :P

well, yes and no about the free service. One block of ads fair enough, but two big ones? The ads took up more space than my post!

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:28:14 +0000

Well apart from that screenshot, I couldn’t see any even with logging out and googling your blog. So that means my ad protection filter is working fine. :P

But yeah, anyways.. :)
Yeah, to provide such a free service, we can’t deny them some sort of revenue for the upkeep of the service right? :)

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:53:09 +0000

Well, I see a lot of people complain as I spend a bit of time in the support forums. But most users of wordpress won't see them unless they're logged in. And those are just four of many threads. And this image is if I google my blog whilst not signed in, quite ugly really. It's from the post 'No more Halo 2...' and yes, I had to shrink the image to get it all on one page! http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2142/adsensenomorehalo2rp9.jpg But yeah, anyways.. :)

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:23:23 +0000

Firstly, I’ve never seen any ad on WP.com partly because of AdBlock and partly because I’m always logged in. However, have you ever heard people complaining about the ads, something which is prevalent in Vox? Chances are only a few. Now, WordPress and MySpace are two different horses so it would be unfair to compare but Facebook is greater than MySpace as per the social networking goes.

Does anyone actually still use myspace? I only go on there when I have a message and get the email notification..
I still get add requests from Bots with girl pics wanting to show their “pixtures” despite not logging in for more than a year… :P

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:03:43 +0000

Weelllll, about the ad free… WP.com isn’t ad free. If you’re logged out and google your own blog you get ads on here too..

Does anyone actually still use myspace? I only go on there when I have a message and get the email notification..

By: ish

ish — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:25:58 +0000

Haha, I saw that myspace css tip earlier too. It was one of the top things on Digg. I pretty much used a modified version of it to design my MySpace layout.

By: Sha

Sha — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:50:56 +0000

Lol. I love that video and saw it before. Yeah, I also keep everything private so only my friends know what is on my page.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:13:24 +0000

You can, but you pay for so most people prefer good layouts not shitty emo customisation [to borrow from Matt] where they change your mouse pointer to a shark. That is the reason most people prefer blog surfing on WordPress – Clean and ad-free.

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:39:11 +0000

Btw, did anyone click that last video link? If so can anyone explain it?!

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:13:55 +0000

Well, you can have CSS customisation on wordpress, like this blog. ;)

Nope, only used your post to link the stuff on my post together!!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:26:17 +0000

Well at least this wasn’t shamelessly stolen from my blog. Yea, i do have more views on myspace but i thought it would be like floggin a dead dog in the end. Might as well focus on the positive aspect (singular) of social networking sites.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:10:07 +0000

I love that cartoon! :P

Btw, even Blogger has somewhat gone the MySpace way with freaky customisation on many blogs. We may curse wordpress for not allowing any theme we choose [just the pre-set ones] but they do have a point. :)