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I Seek Me on ICQ

by Jye on Oct 11, 2007 with No Comments

Getting back onto ICQ was going to be such a non-event I'm only starting this now. I'll get to why later. After ringing a long time friend, Clarkey, who still had an active ICQ account, I quickly found my long lost ICQ Number which at 8 digits, holds some prestige (although I was quickly put in place, by new friends with even older account including a 6 digit). Download the 2001b version (heard terrible reports about the new version) from Old Version. Again, no problems, installed quickly ran like a dream. C Great. Sorted. UIN and Password. Fuck. Now I need ...

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MySpace Bulletins

by Jye on Oct 06, 2007 with 6 Comments

If any of you still float around MySpace (and by float, I mean lurk) still after moving your name to FB, you'll notice that some kids still have a very, very heavy bulletin post rate - these are the people who would be ideal to use something like Twitter. There's 2 girlfriends of mine in particular who continually bulletin, and MySpace's clunky 'click-here-to-see-anything-at-all' interface is a big barrier for me to bother to read beyond the title. As a little experiment, I've suggested Twitter to both of them - although I can already predict their response - "None of my friends use, ...

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STUB 2

by Jye on Oct 04, 2007 with 1 Comment

Thursday was the second "Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade" Twitter meet up. Big thanks to Happener for putting on the drinks and nibbles. Was great to see the Twoddle* offline, and tweeting** with real speech, emotive gestures and LOLs you could hear. Great night. My favourite part was the name tag, and it was soon realised that your username was more important than your real name. *Twoddle: Collective name for group who use Twitter **Tweet: singular item posted on Twitter The video interviews of the night by Scott-Bradley Pearce has been released today. Hope to see you twits at number three. Do you follow ...

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