The Simian Downtime Analyst

Phorm is an ugly little service that want to know what you are doing so it can serve you relevant ads. This makes it suck, because ads on the internet are like herpes: you know some people have them and its only a matter of time until the breakout, and its never pretty. AntiPhormLite is a simple little windows program that fudges the numbers with random browsing.  Now Phorm may have an opt-out feature, but you never know if things let you opt-out anymore.

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T-Mobile has decided to further cater to the personal needs of many. With a great new feature, blocking text messages and spam texts. This makes it much easier to ignore that person who just doesn’t pick up on the subtlety of silence., or the ex that has temporarily forgotten what ex means.

Stumbled across this weird commercial for a giant robot hotel.

Friend Connect is described nicely by the folks at Mashable, it appears that the service is trying to bring everything together in one Google focused place.

What if Halo 3 had been done by Nintendo?

So Facebook profiles were going to get touched up in April but the powers that be decided to hold off for a little bit. The new look is supposed to drop soon and here are some pics of the redesign (I think)

Update: They hooked up Facebook Connect too.

Once again the folks at gHacks hook it up. Link.

I had OpenID setup on this site for a week. After I installed it wrong and got a bunch of errors, I reinstalled and it seemed to work fine after a few days. Then Mr Tsali kept getting errors with it and I let it go, since he was my first loyal reader. I signed up for an OpenID on a third party website and used it a whole one time because it took more steps to log into things. Warpspire has a detailed account of the general feelings I have about the current state of OpenID.

Yes I said it, and I’ll say it again.  I don’t give a damn about Twitter.

Twitter is one of those services that has blown up in the geek world with people posting something going on the very second they decide to do it. Maybe its just that I am not nosy enough to be excited when someone tweets that they just bought someones new album (considering how nosy I am that makes the service quite creepy).  I really do not care what you are having for dinner.

I initially saw what Twitter was designed to do and thought it was silly, then tons of bloggers I follow regularly were assimilated into the Twitter fold.  I signed up to check out the hype machine and I’m just annoyed I spent the time signing up.  I actually signed in and tweeted  (o that term grates my nerves) something to see if the experience would keep me from posting this. Nope.

Oh well, still don’t care about Twitter. Guess I’m just not “geek” enough to hang.