whats the story bebo

you send me three emails from friends. you say

Please confirm story about XXXX

Brian

xxxx has written a story about how you know one another. Please click below to confirm this story:

http://www.bebo.com/confirmstory/xxxx
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but when I go to that page there is no story. I’m asked to write a story! and If i want to see a story my friend wrote about me I’m to go to their page and go into the friends tab. I do this for the three emails bebo sent me and no f’ing story.

Somewhere bebo users have ticked a TICK BOX and bebo thinks this constitutes a story and is worthy of sending me an email to confirm the tick box. I know how I know my friends, they know how they know me, they ticked a box I get some daft email to confirm a non existing story, is this good? No.

Get a life bebo. Your ‘email all your friends an invite’ was way too aggressive a year ago. your growth rate needs further aggression and it annoys me. I also dislike the bebo bug that lets unkowns befriend me as they took a quiz of mine!

bebo you should open up. be more RSS friendly be the best open SNS on the block. open to broader design skins by users. Better self publishing tools, better advert self selection. Not more aggressive growth behaviour.

end of rant.

all approved and befriend by mmbhg

mudville : kind of girl radio : karen jordan : richiemccoy: steve whelan band

i should be able to drag & drop these into a window and make a playlist for you with their #1 tracks and stream it at you. With all links back to myspace adverts, call it “hang the DJ” Myspace is “web 1.9″ if you ask me not 2.0. I hadn’t been down in myspace land in ages, an RSS feed of a myspace blog got me back in, bebo could learn from that.

Twitter has only been launched publicly for about half a year but
the idea took life March, 13 2006 so we’re going to be celebrating
our first birthday

if you can guess where it is in a year from now good luck to ya. the feedburner twitter feed is frozen back to jan’07. while opera mini wont read my burnt feed off this blog past a certain date. some times I hate cache some time i love it (like google & MSN cache that saved me blushes last night) and some times I just love cash loads of it (johnny cash that is).

some of my life long friends i met on CB radio ‘82 - ‘86, some of them my own age many 10-15 years my senior. no matter what Maggie Thatcher said - you can’t kill community nor its best social attributes. digital social network before twitter has lacked immediacy, now we can social mix at the near speed of a ping packet…! bring it on. ideas flow faster in this river of life.

[there is a down side which I will write about next week ;] twitter id: mmbhg

PodRepBod moved today (well its server did) from Dublin to Cork(guess!). Thanks to Tom Raftery who hosts it. Tom moved servers in a very public way today and recently, and I will not be drawn to comment on that round of exchanges for reasons best known to Tom & Michele and its nothing to do with PodRepBod or even doop’s business with Blacknight or because I think Tom is a good guy that gets a hard time of it in the spheres he grooves in.

So Tom has moved to CIX and I wish him best there, tongue firmly in cheek, I hope he gives CIX as hard a time he has given all irish host ISPs in his pursuit for better service over the years. We Irish don’t complain enough, then comes one guy who can, and he gets jumped on x LOL

So before you reach for the cix bags, I will post an “I love michele” post real soon.

so best o luck to CIX…. following in the footsteps of peoples republic of cork, its like when 2RN got a little sister in 1927 in the shape of 6CK

while skype chating with mneylon.com last night I decided to demo a real media server install stream to him, i fired up producer and played some tunes. Michele could hear, and a 10 second delay broadcast and 2 way skype chat began (about 00:20am) then I skype invited inga in boston into the chat and pointed to the audio feed by 3am there were 7 of us in chat around the fireplace and all streamed into the tunes, there we lads from ireland USA poland and more Irish in the room for what I called “Invite Radio” or a glorified conference call.

transmission ended at 3:15am and we all said our goodbyes. the programming was nothing special the music wasn’t either, it was the social shift that happened, polish vodka been drunk, crack was 90. I would love to hear the comments of others involved..

i think we started something, global house parties. we used to duplex this stuff on CB radio in the early 80’s, now we can do it in stereo, record it and podcast it beyond the base live audience… ‘invite your friends around for a music jam’.

I hear this kinda stuff is going on in Second Life, i think an enterprising Skype / Real networks / Shoutcast / AIM / MSN could knock up a tool for the 1:49 people that will pick up the microphone and DJ a broadband party. INVITE RADIO a go go

with all this social networking and blogging, are forums and mailing lists used less? SNs and blogs don’t seem to do ‘virtual community discourse’ like a good old flame war on a BB or a mailing list.

blogs and “be-my-friend” sites are all about the me meme or me,me,me. Where as lists and forums, notwithstanding their more vocal contributors, were to me, all about reaching a public consensus on the topic or thread, to a point where all the points were made or the topic goes cold due to exhaustion.

a quick fire of comments to a blog post might do more for the ego than it will ever do for a topics full on agenda.

has anyone any ideas on how web 1.0 affected the BBS’s etc. of yester-year. or on how web 2.0 is hitting the community driven forums we all hung out on.?
While no one would shut down a forum just because web minutes are being spent elsewhere more (nowadays), as people, and forget tech for a moment, if we fail to use our community forums we are in danger of ending up in gated apartment blocks owned by newSINternational and gooogle. iWarn. Slán.

[cross posted on OPEN list]

Nearly 80 years ago, from a wooden hut that largely resembled a garden shed, the first ever commentary of a league football match was broadcast. 22/1/1927

20 years prior to that, radio got its first voice. Reginald Fessenden broadcast voice messages and a sound recording of ‘o holy night’ on violin to ships in the Atlantic 24/12/1906.

Now (nearly) everyone has a personal mobile phone, mp3 players, camcorders or phones that do all 3 and more. With the internet we have a channel to broadcast on, with storage for demand radio on demand, with rss and http to podcast. Now everyone can become a Peig Cunningham and their life can be recorded like Truman Burbank.

TV was better when we had 4 channels? so all the extra noise tries harder and harder to make a living off a decreasing audience share. Audience’s are bombarded with choice without the social skills or technology tools to wade thought the rubbish and find the gems.

We need new commentators, network independent, content source independent, like content analysts in differing vertical markets of content/subject/genre. Unlike politicians we elect, we need people we can trust.

While digg & youtube and others allow vote counting and hat tipping we need pillars of choice. We have content over supply with audience under supply to that content, unless there is a data recession we need a choice revolution that will see choice move away from company executives and towards content experts. Now more than ever we need those Gary Bushell types of tv critique. will you pay for it? We need new commentators.
furthermore

youtube allows you to rss feed by tags like http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/dublin.rss

it will let you rss against a user like http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/dojodub.rss

but you have little control over these feeds.

you can control your own playlists in youtube but not rss them afaik
so I feed43′ed one of my playlists here as this feed http://www.feed43.com/MyOldGreyTubeTest.xml

the feed43 parse magic is here

where would bill be with out ben

or zig without zag or

ant without dec

are technolotics ever going to flickr or tubes again? lads ‘come back’ tours are popular nowadays

what these guys know about social tubing they could teach a course in trinners… where can I subscribe again? or has the evil Fox signed up these guys for a Soledad O’Brien type ‘The Site’ show on cable… Mystery continues into two thousand double ‘O’ seven