Monthly Archives: October 2008

AOL’s largely Republican audience

Posted on 10/30/2008 by C.K. Sample III

I visited the new AOL homepage today to see what the Facebook integration was like. It wasn’t horrible, although the big ugly animated medium rectangle ad about removing wrinkles sitting atop the Facebook integration *was* horrible. In any case, there … Continue reading →

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Twitter vs Facebook: Differing audiences and convergence

Posted on 10/27/2008 by C.K. Sample III

Over the past two or three months, it seems that everyone I know from high school and college have discovered Facebook. I’m getting multiple friend requests per day. Actually, when I think about Facebook, it seems to work reverse-chronologically in … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Online Media, Personal, twittering, web two point oh | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Pumpkin Carving

Posted on 10/26/2008 by C.K. Sample III

Kristin and I carved our pumpkins Friday night. What do you think?

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Hubris

Posted on 10/25/2008 by C.K. Sample III

What happens when you’ve been sitting on top of the world for so long and you start venturing into new markets? Google executives acknowledged the issue but said that the security features of the phone would limit the extent of … Continue reading →

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New OpenOffice.org

Posted on 10/19/2008 by C.K. Sample III

I just installed the latest version of OpenOffice.org, version 3.0.0 Official Release, which on OS X no longer needs X11 to run, so it’s just like running any other native OS X office suite, except it’s free. Anyway, I launched … Continue reading →

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