Archive for January, 2008

Last.FM: Yet another internet trend I’m way behind on…

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

So I always seem to know about all the “trendy” web 2.0 stuff out there, but I never really use it – and when I do I realize what I’ve been missing out on.

Granted, there are some that don’t really hit the mark – like twitter. It is hyped a LOT and I still hear/read lots of people talking about it, but it really seems a little too simple for me. I don’t need to know what people are up to 24/7. It’s like a whole idea based around facebook status messages.

I’ve just discovered a great web 2.0 site, though, that I’ve read about for a long, long time. I never actually went to the site, though, until I heard they are offering lots of full tracks to listen to whenever you want – no more 30 second previews!

Granted, it’s not for every song on the site, but I’ve found a lot that are full tracks. But that isn’t the reason I’m even mentioning it – I just realized they have a great app (at least on OS X, not sure how good it is on windows and linux) that is basically like Pandora on steroids. For me, I really just never liked the Pandora interface.

So anyway, last.fm will also track your music stats, hook you up with “friends”, and basically anything else a social networking site does.

Basically, it just has a great interface, a great little app that goes along with the site – and it just works (cue apple fanboy flames!).

I digress – you can just go check it out for yourself!

Happy listening…

Gerstmann Debacle Summed Up in One Article

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Sam Kennedy, a 1UP editor, wrote a pretty good blog entry summarizing the drama with Gamespot firing Jeff Gerstmann at the end of 2007. It’s an interesting read and had some stuff in it I didn’t even know was going on (mostly with some of the backlash by the community).

Let’s hope the rumors of Gerstmann starting a new site are true. Maybe Alex Navarro will join him…

Yet another cute animal picture…

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Why do I keep coming across these things?

So cute!…again!

You can’t find a cuter “wild” animal picture…

Friday, January 4th, 2008

So sweet!

You can now move on with your day…

GREAT Analogy from Arstechnica

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Great analogy over at arstechnica about the Burnout: Paradise demo:

I don’t mind a quick loading screen if I get to retry a race over and over, and really, there is no way you could keep that one race in memory to avoid that? If you tell me that memory is being used to keep the hub world from having to load… well, that’s like saying you can’t pour me a beer because your hands are so busy punching me. I don’t care if you’re very good at punching people, or if this is just a demo and you promise I’ll be kicked as well when I give you money, the truth is I just wanted the beer.

I really didn’t think the demo was bad at all…