LiveJournal is continuing in its quest to be Facebook and Tumblr simultaneously, thereby driving even more people away. I haven't seen any screenshots of this new "release" (read: train wreck), but it sounds like they're going to make all friends pages uniform and remove a ton of customizability ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17177053

LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant
By Robert Greenall BBC News


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Dreamwidth has given me a new invite code for someone to use to set up a new account. Anyone want it?

According to http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/47966.html , anyway.

Australia: 03 8888 5192

Canada: 1705 805 0069

United Kingdom (Toll-Free): 0808 280 0740

United States (this hasn't changed): 1888 840 6189 or 1888 LJ VPOST (558 7678)

And thanks ganimede for alerting me! His post is copied here because I'm lazy and he just said it so darn well in the first place.

Those of you who have a paid account might be interested to know that LJ is offering a 3-day extension as a result of the recent downtime. I think this is pretty decent of them, considering it wasn't their fault for once. If ( Read more... )

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130

UPDATE on June 24: We've received some questions in the comments about default privacy settings for this beta. Nothing has changed with your default privacy settings. The beta is only open to people who already chose ( Read more... )

A week or two ago, my computer decided to crash and not boot. Some troubleshooting established that the motherboard* seemed to have spontaneously fried itself - it was clearly receiving power, but wouldn't POST**, no matter what I did. Since I needed a new motherboard, I decided this would be a good opportunity to upgrade my CPU*** as well. I ( Read more... )

Dear Twitter ( Read more... )

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
Posted by Nick O'Neill on February 2nd, 2009 11:00 AM


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I am not a big gamer, but I love my Diablo II (and am looking forward to Diablo III!) and prefer to play online on BattleNet. I'd love to play with people who can type coherently and don't toss around words like 'fag' and 'retard'. These days I've been playing on the US-East network, but I'm happy to meet folks on US-West or Europe or Asia. My ( Read more... )