Posts Tagged: livejournal

Technology — 8 Comments
1
Apr 07

Livejournal… The next myspace?

Millions of users have enjoyed the services livejournal has provided for over 8 years. Livejournal, to many, kick started the blogging revolution allowing users to publish entries easily, while providing a custom look and a network of friends. It didn’t just kick start blogging, Livejournal defined social networking, and wants to be a major competitor again. According to their website, LiveJournal will be adding features of which made many of the social networks popular.

LiveJournal issued this release on the site: Full release here

We work tirelessly to preserve that atmosphere here on LiveJournal, but we also recognize that we need to remain competitive in an ever-changing market. Today we’re pleased to announce that LiveJournal will be following in the footsteps of other popular websites — many of which you frequent regularly! In fact, we’re so excited that our design and engineering teams have been hard at work to make the changes that you’ve been wanting. We’re starting with the home page, bringing a greater emphasis to both our featured content and our beloved advertisers.

Should myspace, facebook, et al. be worried with this shift in marketing by LiveJournal? Hardly. Im not saying LiveJournal doesn’t command a large market as it is. It has a ton of old school members that are still there everyday, and still post everyday. I am one of those members that has been a part of LiveJournal since 2001. In that time, I have accumulated hundreds of posts, thousands of comments, and dozens of friends in an interconnected social network. With all of that in mind, I don’t think they can compete with the new kids.

In a way, I don’t want them to compete entirely. I have a myspace account, a facebook account, even an old friendster account. I have publicly poo-pooed the community that surrounds these, which justifies my move to Virb. Livejournal still has most of my friends on there, it has a ton of my content, and feels nice and warm. I don’t want the kiddies in the pool during adult swim.

If LiveJournal wants to do this correctly, they will want to have subtle undertones in their social networking ability. Don’t place ads everywhere, make things easy, and they need to continue to support the open source environment Brad Fitzpatrick started when he created LiveJournal. The real key, don’t alienate the current user group.

Wordpress — No Comments
28
Jan 07

LiveJournal Crossposting

I just tried to install and activate the LiveJournal Crossposter. Not only did it not work, I couldn’t even activate the plugin without errors flashing up everywhere. I haven’t looked at the code yet, but this is inspiring me to create a plugin that does a similar task, but possibly a little different than the plugin does.

I was reading through the comments of the plugin page, and saw that a lot of people had 3200 errors. I know that livejournal will allow you to update via email. You can set up a cron job to email out, so, why not have it capture the post, post it to wordpress, then take that post and email it to the address specified by LiveJournal.

I guess this would keep multimedia content from working properly, but if it posts, at least it can do that. I may get around to that, but it may not be until May. I am so swamped right now.

Friends / Meme — No Comments
31
Oct 03

Trick-or-Treat Haul

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
pholower goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a box.
absurdity gives you 4 orange grape-flavoured gummies.
angelone tricks you! You lose 3 pieces of candy!
fadingimmortal tricks you! You get an old sock.
i_hate_it_here gives you 14 light green root beer-flavoured miniature candy bars.
new_grrrl gives you 2 light orange mint-flavoured gummy bears.
popevil gives you 1 dark green coconut-flavoured gummy worms.
roymoore gives you 2 purple peach-flavoured nuggets.
somaweary gives you 10 yellow grapefruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
versionone tricks you! You get a pencil.
zisforzillah gives you 12 white coconut-flavoured gummy worms.
pholower ends up with 42 pieces of candy, an old sock, and a pencil.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Updates — 6 Comments
25
Dec 01

pholower.com?

I have been in a rather good mood lately. I have most of my friends that are on LJ a paid account. I have realized that in many cases this is the primary way I keep up with them.
I still need to do some work on my webpage before I let it go public, and I have been fiddling around with the idea of buy a domain name. pholower.com how does that sound? If any of you know of a good domain service or hosting service I should go through please let me know. I am seriously thinking about doing this so that I can post my writing and photography on there rather than just on my journal.
I bought my sister a CD player for her car today. I know she must feel horrible about not having anything in her car to listen to after the little incident a week ago.
I hope all of you have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. (Oh, and if any of you have anything planned for the New Year, please let me know. I have nothing to do that night and would love a party, or at least some company)

Photography — No Comments
21
Dec 01

Artistic Aspirations.

The paid journal thing is cool. I didn’t do it because of the extra features, although they are nice, I did it because it supports livejournal. I know it must be expensive to run things the way they do. (Have you ever seen an ad?) I was happy today because I only had to work 6 1/2 hours. Not too bad. I feared that Sam wouldn’t show up, and that I would have to work until 9 or 10. That would have really sucked because I would still be a work right now. Anyhow, I am working on a huge improvement on the look of my site. Then maybe I will start to update it more often and let you guys look at it. I am still upset that I can’t use my camera anymore. The only other digital camera I own is broken and I haven’t found a place that will fix it (besides canon) and I am scared to think of how much it will cost for it to be repaired. So I am looking on ebay to see what the average auction price is for a digital SLR. I have found a Nikon for around $200. It is a 3.1 Megapixal with 10x optical zoom. Plus it has some really cool features on it. It holds two Compact Flash cards, and it can take type II cards. This means I can buy a 64mb card and use the 8mb card that I have here, with the the 32mb card that it comes with. SWEET! Soon I will have a page that has the same artistic quality that has at www.myredself.org. Until then. I will keep trying…

Updates — No Comments
20
Dec 01

Paid my Dues

I got a paid account today. Start watching my Journal for a really sick look!

Photography — 2 Comments
31
Oct 01

Pictures…?

Yeah, so you want to see the pictures. BAD! Go to photojournals, this is where I post the majority of my pictures.

That is all.

Photography — No Comments
10
Oct 01

Photojournals

I have created a Community on LiveJournal called Photojournals. I would enjoy it if all of you joined. Even if you do not have a digital camera, or a scanner. You know you all want to join to post your pictures and thoughts. (At least I hope you do) Anyway, just click here and then click profile, from there you just click join community and thats it. Of course, if you have problems posting to it I will help you, but until then, join, and get others to join as well.

Updates — No Comments
29
Sep 01

Journal Modification…

I have been doing a lot of Journal Modification lately, I thought the last one was ugly, I am trying new stuff now, so over the next few days… BEWARE!

Updates — 1 Comment
14
Jul 01

What?

Have you ever taken the time to read the little phrases in the top right hand corner of the LiveJournal thing? If you go to LiveJournal.com and not to the people’s journals, it says LiVEJOURNAL tm and then to the right of that are little words. read them sometime.
actual quotes from the livejournal banner…
“So I downloaded brads new fix to the client.”
“From those who peer down i’m procrastinating again.”
“My life is so hard.”

Who are these people?